Growing with free products?
Hi everyone,
I'm a computer science student studying in London, i started making my own products a few months ago and managed to sell one of my projects on acquire.com.
I'm making a few products right now and am planning to launch them soon, but my twitter reach is quite limited, i had a break from social media and i'm just getting back into it now.
I've been seeing a lot of Next.JS boilerplates on twitter selling for quite a high price, most of them being $149+. I had actually planned to make a boilerplate, but my following is quite small and i'm thinking the launch would not have much of an effect.
Then, I thought I could release the boilerplate for FREE, maybe increase my following with a free product that can compete with all the features the paid boilerplates have?
I want to know what some other people think about this strategy, or maybe I should try something else?
I am planning to include all the features the boilerplates have: Auth, Payments, Components etc
Waitlist link: https://saasunderone.com
How cool to see one of my themes from lexingtonthemes.com around!
Lexington themes are the best tailwind themes there are! Great job with them!
Thank you so much for that Ali, that means a lot.
It depends on your goals really. If they are financial goals, offering something for free forever with no other means of capturing revenue seems like you'll do just that - capture no revenue. Financial goals aren't the only things people aim for, though.
What I have gathered as some fairly common thinking is that if you offer something for free, you're doing that as a means to hopefully gain something else, ideally upselling the premium version or maybe another thing you own. Maybe you offer it for free for the feedback on the thing to make it better for the future (paid) users. Maybe you're doing it for personal growth. All of those are valid, you just have to decide what is important to you.
One maybe middle ground idea is to offer this boilerplate for free for a limited time (and market as such). You can decide later if it's something you feel people would buy and try that out, but the first users often give the most useful feedback for you to iterate on, so that is highly useful. It's great for the product and also your own growth as a builder and marketer.
As an aside, check on your deployed waitlist page there.
Good luck!
Thank you for the feedback. I'll probably go for the limited time offer.
I'll sort the problems out.
Thanks again!
You can start making money later once you see some progress.
I think it's an investment for the future.
If you are a student, create your audience and associate it with your personal brand.
I created this small free site veilmail.io which stops bots from scraping your email address.
You create a fun scratch card that people scratch to reveal your email address.
Launch multiple micro SaaS and keep them Free.
Until you see some traction, you can always monetize later.
I am making my product free also. But when user use it, the results can help me organically grow.
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