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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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