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Re:Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas? by mandeepj on Saturday September 22, 2018 @11:08PM (#18049174)
> Make sure it doesn't have a free plan

Nothing wrong with being free. It can get you popularity like dropbox, robinhood etc

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Re:Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas? by pmorici on Saturday September 22, 2018 @11:21PM (#18049213)
I think his point is that if the existing service has a free plan then it is going to be hard to undercut them on price. Dropbox and Robinhood want to dominate the market. OP's advice is for making a couple hundred bucks a month on the side.
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Re:Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas? by toast0 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @11:19PM (#18049200)
If the aim is to build a limited version of a product, targetted towards price sensitive users, and the existing product has a free tier you can't compete on price, and there may not be many paying customers anyway.
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