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Find a way to make it free to start.

This is how Firebase, Supabase and friends work.

Getting 100 people to sign up for a free service is still work, but significantly less.

>>999900+(OP)
We have a free version. For now, we have kept it invite-only. Question is TOFU.

>>999900+(OP)
Making it 100X harder to get them to pay for it subsequently. "If you’re good at something, never do it for free" - Joseph Joker MBA JD.

If not, then you are in the ad business.

>>Crules+W4
To play devil's advocate, many successful developer focused companies have gone down this route successfully. Neon, Cloudflare, Firebase, Github and many more have all made free tiers work.

I suspect there's a special dynamic for developers. I'm usually more willing to try out new things on personal projects, but I also don't like paying for things on personal projects. At work I don't care how much things cost, but I'll definitely advocate for tools that worked well on personal projects.

>>Crules+W4
Supabase doesn't even require a credit card, but your data goes poof in 60 days if you don't pay.

Ideally you want your tools to be so easy to use, clients just switch onto a paid plan when they want to get serious.

>>Crules+W4
Many successful companies that we’ve all heard of have free tiers. They offer free tiers because it works. They’re certainly not in the ad business.

>>hluska+D21
Many people win in a casino. Forget the majority who do not. Competing on price, unless you are Toyota or Google, is a low probability move.