[DarrenDev]

There's no pricing on the website that I can find.

Are you really saying that you spent years of work and $1m+ of your own money building something that you love but that has no income and no path to income?

A free app?

You're very articulate and the comments have been interesting to read, but it all feels a bit like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly

You need to go to your existing users and tell them that from next Monday the price is $x.

Unless you're independently wealthy and quite happy to continue building your perfect app and giving it away for free forever. In which case, carry on.

[ptwobrussell]

To date, the most I've done is add a "nag screen paywall" in the app that presents a monthly subscription as an in app purchase. It's not enforced (yet), so it's more of an "optional" thing as crazy as that sounds -- but you're right: gotta start enforcing that, and soon.

FWIW, over the months, I've rationalized not enforcing it because I tell myself, "Need to get a small quorum of active users first, because the monetization won't really matter or won't add up till much until then...I need to find some signal from users and don't want to obstruct yet (yet)."

And even as I type that, I sort of believe it, but at the same time, I know it's not the best way.

So yeah, it's essentially free right now for the small number of users who use it. I'll probably learn something important if I enforce the paywall on that small number of users.

[DarrenDev]

> I need to find some signal from users

The clearest and most unambiguous signal from users is "I will pay you money for this" or "I will not pay you money for this."

[ptwobrussell]

100% -- and the comments on this post have really helped me to find some more clarity and gain confidence in taking some more aggressive next steps in that direction!