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0 pointsmasukomi5y ago0 comments

we hope to get you dependent upon our product, and in the meantime come up with something we hope you'll be willing to pay for is not the most confidence inducing of business plans. Also, if the current plans are "free forever" have no caps on users or much of anything else and are good enough to use until they actually finish off the things worth paying for then how many folks are actually going to be inclined to pay for them?

if it's NOT good enough as-is then why bother using it in the first place?

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ZephyrBlu5y ago· 1 in thread

The business model isn't anything special... It's just freemium.

Take a look at ProfitWell for instance, they do the same thing: Give away their core product then make money on upsells.

Also, building the business model as they go is pretty normal for a startup.

mbreese5y ago

> building the business model as they go

This just means that what used to be free will end up costing money when whatever new features they think they can charge for won't get enough users to cover their costs.

This is especially true if the free plan is more than enough for most users. Which, if you're positioning yourself as a Jira alternative -- most users won't need in-depth AI planning for sprints.

It's not a great business plan...

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