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> You know how people don't usually ask for free bites of food at restaurants?

If restaurants had anything like the tech industry’s track record of delivering either nothing whatsoever or actual shit instead of food, you’d better believe we’d all ask to try before we buy.

Offering me a subscription, no matter how cheap, for a product I don’t know I want, don’t know I need, and don’t know for certain you can even deliver doesn’t, in any way, establish trust in your audience. A free tier or trial does.

Also consumers know that companies have to pay money to run and maintain software, they just don’t care, and they shouldn’t. It’s called Cost of Doing Business and it’s the business’s job to pay that money, even if they can’t secure enough interest or trust in their product to continue to pay the costs they have incurred.

So, no, if you put much thought into it at all, it’s not weird.