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charge $29 now with three users or stay free until 50 — four months of runway Objections
Savings cover roughly four months. Three people use the tool daily and two of them have asked, unprompted, what it's going to cost. That feels like a signal, but the product is genuinely half finished — no export, no team accounts, mobile is bad.
Half of what I read says charge on day one to validate. The other half says get to 50 users so there's something to learn from. With four months I can't do both.
If I charge now and they say no, I've learned something but I've probably also lost them. Anyone done this with a rough product?
@hemline_hana · 3w ago · 3 replies
Charge. Two people asking unprompted what it costs is the rarest signal in this entire business and it has a shelf life. In two months they'll have built a workaround or forgotten.
You don't lose them by charging. You lose them by charging and then not shipping. Price it at $29, tell them exactly what's missing and when it lands, and give them that price permanently. "Founding price, $29, locked forever, export ships in three weeks" is a real offer with a real reason to say yes today rather than later.
And an unpaid daily user who won't pay $29 isn't a customer you lost, it's information you needed inside your four-month window.
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@serger_scared · 4w ago
'The signal expires' is the part I hadn't considered. They asked six and nine days ago respectively.
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@petra_lindqvist · 3w ago
Go today, and not via a pricing page — an individual message to each of them. Pricing page is for strangers, later.
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