Linusvq

I stand very much corrected and wasn’t trying to make an allegation…

Your pricing page says pretty much the opposite and is quite confusing — it literally just shows “Free” vs. “Grow” and no option for self hosting made clear

This is a weird concept - “open source in name only”. It’s like you are using the brand cache of the open source ethos (transparency, collaborative, community-driven, etc.) but then artificially limiting the free version of it significantly to…100 contacts? Even the most basic of users/needs will hit that limit quickly. For the price point - the product feature set has to be significantly compelling and this is not anywhere near that yet.

It is almost as if you are playing the App Store “freemium game” model but applying it to open source software. Agree with other comments — either make the full functionality free and charge for special key features (e.g. Obsidian + Obsidian Sync) or just be a free/paid closed source product from the get go, this is trying to be both and not succeeding at either.

This is a great read — appreciate the valley of “phase 2: too many things to prioritize” which is where I see most product teams get stuck - trying to over-index on being data-driven, or on MRR targets…

You are procrastinating. Your psychology is preventing you somehow from doing the work, because you have some inherent fear that is preventing you from getting started.

I am guilty of this too - I think we all are. It’s far easier to focus on productivity tools/processes because it feels productive, thus giving you feedback without actually doing the harder job of the actual work, and thus perhaps realizing your underlying fear of failure or fear of being judged / etc.