Freemium Questions

Our product is a B2B SaaS tool that has most of the users in the free plan. We do have a "Pro" plan, but not many people have converted to it yet and our marketing efforts till now have been to...

Freemium Investors Seed Funding Angel Investors

asked Apr 14 '14 at 16:43

Monica Crandall
9 points

This topic was touched on in a fairly general abstract way in another post, but I'd like to put the question based on these specifics. Here is the business: Consumer internet web app Freemium...

Freemium Seed Funding Fundraising

asked Oct 22 '13 at 19:00

Seven Dials
21 points

Suppose I have a web application where the intention is ultimately to go the freemium route, with some users paying for extra features, and others having a smaller set of features for free, while...

Business Model Freemium

asked Sep 4 '13 at 23:48

rbwhitaker
3,465 points

I'm building a web app that generates SEO reports. I've built a bare minimum prototype and received some exciting feedback from potential customers. As of now, the only thing I have publicly live...

Pricing Freemium Prototype

asked Jul 11 '13 at 01:22

Mnort9
201 points

In today's world is it a requirement for any software solution to be "free" to be able to achieve widespread acceptance/usage around the world?

Marketing Freemium

asked Jul 19 '13 at 01:41

User221287
111 points

We offer a free, cloud based B2B application - it offers the same and more functionality than most if not all of the paid equivalent applications out there at no cost. We offer awesome support...

Customers Saas Customer Feedback Freemium Free

asked Feb 20 '13 at 01:58

Bhttoan
735 points

I have idea for the file sharing site. Now, I was thinking to first release the service without pricing options and users base, basically, to offer free but limited service, kind a like free...

Website Web Services Freemium Free MVP

asked Dec 5 '12 at 10:46

Cikatomo
108 points

In the case of business SaaS, specifically in a market where this type of software is never free what are the arguments regarding launching your product for free? More specifically the idea would...

Cost Saas Freemium Free

asked Oct 5 '12 at 15:48

Maxim Gershkovich
234 points

We are developing a freemium business model and have planned some Premium features that users can buy. What are the main differences between these two types of monetization: Premium model : Buy...

Business Model Monetization Freemium Donations

asked Feb 20 '12 at 22:22

Xavi Esteve
223 points

I'm working to launch my product in the near future and some guys are asking if there will be a "free" version. I've read some opinions that discourage the freemium model because canibalizes sales...

Pricing Marketing Software Freemium

asked Jan 25 '12 at 14:00

Nestor Sanchez A
690 points

I recently launched a web site but I have a dilemma between building a community completing business model at the moment the site just MVP so it has some attractive features but doesn't have...

Marketing Strategy Community Freemium MVP

asked Jan 18 '12 at 06:56

Altuure
103 points

For the launch, we're thinking of including all the eventual premium features at no cost, referring to the launch as a public beta. Eventually, once traffic picks up, we would put up a notice...

Launch Beta Freemium

asked Jan 24 '12 at 06:00

Mirov
384 points

Basically, I am doing pay per feature for my desktop software. I offer a base version which is free, but has limited functionality. I also offer 15 day trial on specific features users wants to...

Trial Freemium Desktop

asked Dec 23 '11 at 01:14

Gagwgw
227 points

I have a software as a service model for content management system. What I'm wondering is do I have to have a free version tier in order to sell it? Meaning do I need to have some threshold of...

Saas Freemium

asked Dec 28 '11 at 16:59

Zipstory.Com
120 points

I'm about to release a mobile app I wrote. Since the first version is somewhat bare-bones (aka a MVP), I'm making it free. However, in the future I want to use the freemium model. Do you think it's...

Beta Freemium Free Mobile Apps

asked Oct 26 '11 at 13:41

Black Rider
297 points

I am starting an online b2b networking portal. It is somewhat comparable to linkedin in a sense that most of the content is user generated, meaning more users it has more attractive service...

Pricing Beta Freemium

asked Oct 14 '11 at 22:56

Peter K.
194 points

We've heard from several formerly wildly successful software/webapp companies using the freemium business model that it is no longer working well. Does anyone have any validation to this? And if...

Pricing Business Model Freemium Web App

asked Oct 15 '11 at 05:10

Sydney Stavrou
21 points

I am developing an online utility application. My partners and I have struggled to come up with a profitable business model. We were thinking that we could sell server space to allow people to put...

Freemium

asked Oct 16 '11 at 02:09

Matt
20 points

I am currently implementing a relatively simple web application, as I'm trying to dive into Ruby on Rails. It turns out be going quite well and, in my opinion, it will appeal to a lot of users. But...

Pricing Charging Testing Freemium Web App

asked Sep 14 '11 at 05:19

Dyn Zack
216 points

I have a successful tool that has received lots of buzz for the past week or two. The tool is currently free and I hope to adopt a freemium model. I have the following options and I can't decide...

Launch Payments Saas Beta Freemium

asked Jul 5 '11 at 23:12

Lee
8 points