Comment by 999900000999
Comment by 999900000999 6 days ago
Find a way to make it free to start.
This is how Firebase, Supabase and friends work.
Getting 100 people to sign up for a free service is still work, but significantly less.
Comment by 999900000999 6 days ago
Find a way to make it free to start.
This is how Firebase, Supabase and friends work.
Getting 100 people to sign up for a free service is still work, but significantly less.
To play devil's advocate, many successful developer focused companies have gone down this route successfully. Neon, Cloudflare, Firebase, Github and many more have all made free tiers work.
I suspect there's a special dynamic for developers. I'm usually more willing to try out new things on personal projects, but I also don't like paying for things on personal projects. At work I don't care how much things cost, but I'll definitely advocate for tools that worked well on personal projects.
Supabase doesn't even require a credit card, but your data goes poof in 60 days if you don't pay.
Ideally you want your tools to be so easy to use, clients just switch onto a paid plan when they want to get serious.
We have a free version. For now, we have kept it invite-only. Question is TOFU.
Making it 100X harder to get them to pay for it subsequently. "If you’re good at something, never do it for free" - Joseph Joker MBA JD.
If not, then you are in the ad business.