The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)

Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ... by paulus_magnus on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:42PM (#10235271)

Why don't you "motivate" frequent users to start paying?

ex. by making the free version (gradually) worse until you see revenue.

ex.

- non pro user pastebins last 5mins, 5 views etc

- non pro users can post 1 pastebin per day (cookies, IP)

- non pro user pastebins are max x characters long.

- you get the idea

- there are clever people on this forum who will come up with good ideas to help you out.

- do everything BUT show ads, PLEASE. Internet's sole purpose is almost all that already.

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Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ... by tobr on Thursday September 17, 2015 @03:04PM (#10235409)

You're confusing pastebin.com with jsbin.com. None of those restrictions wouldn't really make much sense for JS Bin I think.

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Re:The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side ... by paulus_magnus on Thursday September 17, 2015 @05:18PM (#10236144)

None of those ...

Hope you got my point. The above are only meant as an example.

Main idea is to cripple* the free tier enough to push a chunk of current users from free into pro. Some will leave but you don't want them anyway (they will never pay).

* how exactly cripple? This is the product design / product-market-fit stage work that was skipped when building jsbin.com

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