Should I offer a free version?

I think a 7-day trial is a great idea. Or a free version, with upgrade option.

You could also host a low-powered version for free on Github, open source, which could drive traffic.

I think $30 actually seems like a fair price. If my time is worth $100/hr, if this saves me 20 minutes it makes it worth it.

For the right developer, I think it could be about as helpful as Github Autopilot (correct me if I'm wrong) so the pricing seems decent.

Looks pretty polished, congrats! As a developer though (which I believe is your main target audience), I can't really justify paying for this as this information is available in the dev tools already. A free version with limited features might help. Maybe while using it, I come to find out that it's actually simple to use your extension than making changes via the dev tools.

In the first month, we should start free. After one month analyze the Customer behavior.

Definitely, you can come up with a free version that has some limited features. The feature differences between both versions will be making calls for the sale.

We have launched the product on ProductHunt(https://www.producthunt.com/posts/audaos), in this stage, the free version will get more sights and upvotes.
My product named @AudaOS, is for marketing, teacher, consults, etc.
I want to offer free version for 1 year because I need to fix and develop more valuable
features to open the market.
In my eyes, growth is soooooo significant for startups, hhhhh~

Launching that in a free version would be much better for many of those who wouldn't be able to afford that. Also, once after seeing the audience's response, you can jump on to the subscription as per the demand.

Just me speaking personally -- the cost is negligible, but I'm still not going to buy the product unless I feel the value.

Right now (from looking at landing page), it seems like a possibly-nice-to-have and something that might be useful, but I'm still unclear how this will save me time / fit into my workflow / is this something I'd actually use [eg. I don't have a burning irritation w/ Tailwinds as is].

I'd do everything possible to get people using it -- and then dig a little more to figure out a value prop that resonates more strongly.

Rather than a one-time payment, have you considered a subscription? People get regular value from your tool, it's only fair that they pay regularly.

That said, people are trained to use extensions for free, so it's hard to sell them.

I'd vote for a free trial rather than freemium. Freemium is great when it helps to achieve virality, e.g. watermarking.

Hey @althaffe I'd first suggest you use an exit-intent popup tool on your website to find what's the reason people are bouncing off the website. Is it because the price is high or there's some other reason? I did the same for www.glyphleads.com & found that my coverage of skill categories was the reason for people dropping off the website & not because they didn't like the offering!

Or you can even offer your tool for free for 2 weeks & see if there's any spike in sign-ups, thereafter it will be easy for you to navigate further.

All the best!

I would personally use product led growth in this case. Users should have an option to try the product before having to pay for it.
Regarding monetization I think you can test one of the two ways. One is a freemium model where certain features are free forever with optional premium features are available for a one off cost.
The second option is a free trial and users would need to pay for continued use after trial ends. One thing I would suggest if you want to go this route, maybe test out "Pay what you want" pricing structure instead of a fixed price. This way you will be getting real world insights how much users actually want to pay for this solution.
Based on my own thoughts, since this product is for developers I would be inclined to use the freemium model and test it out first.
Hope this helps.

Never offer a free version of your product. It would devalue the whole product and your hard work. You can have a 7 or 14-day free trial for people to test it out, and if it solves their pain point, they will pay for it.

You should provide good support for only paid customers, it would also optimize your time and value of support.

Hey Muhammad, I agree with the other comments - I think it's best to create a free trial. But the spin I would recommend is to create a feature limitation that pushes your user to need to purchase.

The purpose of the free trial would be to give a glimpse of what is possible and how much easier developers can have it, but by upgrading, they can unlock an entire plethora of value/time efficiency

You can easily push free trial users to become paying users by setting up a "feature limitation" and "ascension" email flow

Feature limitation emails - triggered when the user maxes out on a free feature and will push them to upgrade to reap the full benefits

Ascension emails - helps the user get the most out of the free version but shows them how much more is possible with the paid version, pushing them to upgrade

Make sense? Lmk your thoughts bro! I can help you with this

Hey,
Have you thought of offering a 7-day trial at least?
Or create a free version with fewer features.
I know tailwind but I don't know about the competition. Anyone else is offering what you are offering?

It seems that 30€ is quite a lot for an extension but again I am not inside the Tailwind offers