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by ajpikul 3248 days ago
Thanks for doing this, I'm definitely going to consider it since we're implementing token based authentication and my friends have told me XSS is what I should be concerned about there.

How did you choose to go with a trial period instead of a freemium model like slack?

The issue my startup has with trial periods is that it's like "you have 14 days to start generating revenue". Freemium is better for us because it's like "You can learn about our service, and use our service while your staging your release, and when you launch if you're viable (traffic+revenue), we'll be your partner (ie. charge you)".

That's how slack kept us, and Salesforce lost us.

We shouldn't have to worry about paying while we're still learning how to use your service. If I haven't on-boarded it by the time the trial runs out, I'm going to cancel it.

Then again, I don't know your costs, so forgive me if I'm wrong.

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You are absolutely right, trials are difficult when there is a integration step that might take a week. We consider the trial to start once you are fully integrated, not when you sign up.

A Freemium model is something we are interested in! We wanna support smaller projects with a free tier in the future.

Yeah, that sounds good to me. Being a bootstrapped startup, "pricing" is the first page I go to.
Yep. I do the same :)
interesting project, may I ask what is the vision to create a Billion Dollar company?