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Hi guys! I'm the founder of CashBase (http://www.cashbasehq.com/), a personal finance suite of apps (web, iOS, Android). We're a small team and doing this sort of on the side. Growing with 3500-4000 new users per month, now a little over 26k.

CashBase has been free from the start and we now have a product worth paying for - so we're looking for the best revenue model.

Our best option goes like this: 1. User signs up for free and can use the entire app with no feature limitations until they hit 100 transactions (expenses...) - which adds up to roughly 3 months of usage. 2. At that point, they are allowed to view the data, reports, export it etc. We ask them to subscribe for $X/mo or $Y/yr, to continue using the app (adding transactions).

The price point we're considering is $29/yr ($2.4/mo) - one yearly payment, 60-day money back guarantee.

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How does this sound? Could you think of a better model? Do you think the price is right, or too high, or too low?

Thank you in advance. Any feedback is hugely appreciated.

3 years ago I created jobberBase, an open-source platform for building job sites.

It's fairly successful, there are hundreds of sites powered by it (others existed but disappeared in time), we have an active community, freelancers build custom extensions... it's a good environment. However, we've never made any money with it and it has stagnated for about a year, in terms of development, because there aren't any incentives to continue to develop it.

I'm looking for options, because it's a pitty to just see it exist out of inertia and other people's interest.

What would you do with it? How would you build a business on top of it?

Thanks, I'd appreciate any insights!

http://www.jobberbase.com/

CashBase (http://www.cashbasehq.com/) is personal finance software made simple. We have a web app, an iPhone app (http://www.cashbasehq.com/iphone/) and, starting today, an Android app: http://www.cashbasehq.com/android/

What do you think?

http://www.cashbasehq.com

CashBase is a personal finance app for people who hate personal finance apps.

It's a side-project, started as a web application, but since December we have an iPhone app and the Android app is on it's way, ETA 1 month.

We launched it (almost completely) silently in June 2010 and now have over 2,000 users. The app is completely free (web + iPhone) because we have yet to find a good business model. But we're using this time to improve the product, connect with our users and figure out how to make money.

What features do you consider would be worth having in a Premium paid subscription and for how much (per month)?

We'd love to find out what you think about CashBase!

Thanks :).