Should you go trial or freemium? My takeaways from analyzing 50+ SaaS products:
1. You don't have to choose, you can do both! 90% of freemium products also offer a trial.
2. Go trial if your product needs hand-holding and has a high price-point.
3. Go freemium otherwise.
After we found product market fit @Segment in Dec 2012, we nearly ran out of money because we were so scared to ask customers to pay. It took two gracious customers, a cocky sales advisor and a lot of fernet to learn the true value of our product. A 🧵 with 📸 1/18
@elonmusk @Jason @profgalloway We can have more than one subscription.
Boom.
One of the most hurtful conventions in subscription pricing is "it has to be simple".
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my friend just started working here. i've been thinking a lot about how subscription based pricing is unoptimal. curious to see how usage-based billing might work for sublime.
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Product framing often takes advantage of the brain’s tendencies to take shortcuts when estimating value
Example: A steakhouse offers three steaks of escalating value. The brain will often assume the bottom one is too cheap and the top one is too expensive, ultimately taking the shortcut to the middle option.