This is an academic project that aims to provide data on the media industries for researchers, newsmedia and interested citizens. I've attempted to use methods that are both accessible and reproducable by the average person. As a personal project, I want to show academics what they can do with very minimal programming knowledge ( I knew what to change and look for in the .php and .css files for...
Free Version is limited to 1 timeline. You're not going to generate enough engagement/ commitment off of your freemium model especially since it's just a point solution (only one novel type of visual narrative). No one will feel like they need it or are comfortable with it enough to purchase.
My suggestion. Increase freemium to three timelines. 1.Give people a chance to do cool things with it and experiment.. 2. Because the temporal aspect is only a part of a story, I would suggest working on product integration (Powerpoint or one of its alternatives, Prezi etc.) 3. Or an alternative strategy would be to get a few types of clean slick visualations. I could see people paying for a package.