[pbteja1998]

Yeah, I didn't know how much that is going to cost me if I added a free trial. But I can create a demo for you if you like. Give me an example web page link for which you want the chatbot.

I will create one and post the link here. Just a single page url.

[mpeg]

I don’t mean to be harsh, but if running a free trial would bankrupt you, you shouldn’t be trying to start a company.

It also doesn’t inspire much confidence in your early users, there’s been a lot of these GPT API cashgrabs popping up all over so if you want to differentiate yourself you might need to actually incur some risk.

[dorilama]

If you can't risk 19$ to see if a service can bring value to your website maybe you shouldn't give advice about starting a company?

[mpeg]

I think I'm qualified to give this advice, seeing as some of the biggest brands in the world have trusted my advice on digital marketing.

It has nothing to do about whether I personally can risk the $19, I'm not even in the target audience for this – the question is what percentage of the target audience is going to be ready to pay $19 for something they don't know is going to work for their site, and how much bigger would that pie be if the site owner spent a tiny amount on offering trials.

Just making people get their card out is going to make a huge percentage of leads drop off, especially when there's almost no content/demos or an actual working trial in the site (even the screenshot is just a static screenshot instead of a live demo).

If you want to know more, you can reach out via email and I'd be happy to help (though it might cost you a bit more than $19)

[phil-martin]

What if instead of offering free trials to everybody, you estimate how many free trials you could afford, and limit it to that?

In exchange for the free trial the potential customer gives you permission to use it as a demo for others to try out and see how it performs.