Notes on pricing, paywalls and the work nobody photographs.
Everything here comes from one product, with the numbers and the mistakes left in. No frameworks, no summaries of other people’s posts.
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4 min readWhat 31 premium accounts taught me about what users actually value
I audited the paying customers closest to renewal to find out why they looked passive. The data refused my hypothesis, and the roadmap changed the week after.
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6 publishedOne of the Often-Forgotten Things in SaaS: What Happens After Payment
You track traffic, funnels, and conversions. But do you know what happens after someone pays?
A product bet that sold zero
A PSC inspection guide for gas carriers. I said the niche was too narrow to carry development costs; the go/no-go was not mine.
From $100 to $2,171 a month
A product the owner was about to close, a business model rebuilt from free content to freemium, and the free tier that decides whether anyone pays.
Pricing experiments: the $1/day failure and the 5 → 3 reset
A micro-plan that died on payment fees, and the two plans I deleted because nobody bought them.
An app in three weeks, and the distribution problem behind it
A focused Android MVP shipped without Google Play. Building it was the easy part.