[dangus]

A lot of comments here are saying that competing on price is a losing proposition, but I think they’re forgetting that this is a solo project and not a 500 person company that’s trying to be as profitable as possible to be attractive for acquisition like Typeform. The bar for success for a solo project is far lower.

Typeform has to blow money on a lot of overhead that this author doesn’t have.

And let’s not just ignore a whole bunch of products that ousted market leaders specifically because they competed on price/value. Examples include: Google Docs, Mailchimp, a gigantic list of Adobe competitors, Unity, Backblaze, Robinhood, and the list goes on.

[immibis]

Didn't Google Docs win because it was online and (more) mobile-friendly, not because it was free? Almost everyone had Office on their PCs at the time, but not on their tablets.

[sokoloff]

My view is that where Google workspace apps have won, it’s on price (for enterprise) or because it’s free (for easy online sharing, etc.)

[preetsuthar17]

I tried my best :)