[fananta]

Thanks and great questions!

1. We're currently looking at creative options to support personalized notifications. One possibility is something similar to what Rapportive did and provide sites with a way to deliver notifications.

2. We honestly did this because it was a need we had. We're looking at a number of strategies. The most likely is a set of premium features for a one-time fee. That said, we might just leave it free too.

[victoknight]

What about limiting the number of services for the free version; say the first five are free, then a one time fee to unlock additional.

[fananta]

This is certainly one option and we're still thinking. Our main goal is to make cool stuff that people love, and then we'll focus on monetization. :-)

[k3n]

That's the only way to go about it, IMO.

It seems that in today's world, too many companies get a hair-brained idea from some executive that thinks they've got it all figured out, spend 100's of thousands building it, and millions to market it... only to discover that nobody actually likes it and/or will ever use it.

I don't want to name names (as I'm not looking to start a flamewar), but off the top-of-my-head I can think of several very prominent, very successful (historically) corporations that seem to use such a marketing-driven approach: instead of letting users fall in love with the product by their own devices, instead the corp tries to make the product and only then do they try to sell the user on why they should love it.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't it can be a costly mistake. When you have a compelling product or service, marketing is minimal; word-of-mouth is king!

Cheers, your service looks very cool.

[fananta]

Really appreciate your comment! I really do agree with your sentiments.

[pbreit]

I dislike this sort of limit. The best freemium schemes provide a full enough featured service for free users and fee-based services that obviously make sense for a segment of customers willing and able to pay. Limiting the number of services severely cripples the basic service.