Would you charge for usage if your SaaS is a freemium model?

I'm building a tool called "Ask Me Anything", which is a tool for your audience to ask you anything.

You can collect and manage questions in real name or anonymous with no code, and question you’ve answered will turned into a page automatically which can be searched on Google and our search engine.

I plan to launch the first version this month and recently I'm thinking about the pricing model to validate the willingness to pay.

And here is the topic I'm thinking about: Should I charge for usage if the model is freemium model? For example, should I restrict the number of questions that free user be able to collect?

If yes, will it reduce the willingness to use and make it harder to achieve viral? If not, why not?

Welcome any positive or negative feedback 🙌🏻 And you can visit https://askmeanything.cc to get the early access if you're interested.

Many thanks. Hope you guys have a great weekend!

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Charles Tseng

on November 11, 2022

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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~

Leon_Ou

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  Thanks for sharing Leon, the product looks amazing. Congrats for the launch. And I'm curious about how you will validate the willingness to pay of your product if you decide to offer free version for 1 year?
  
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    Refer to the pricing schemes of competing products. The competitor will tell you "how I do it" on his price list. There is no shame in learning directly.
    
    Adjust based on data feedback. When you transition from a free plan to a paid plan, users and data will drop, that's for sure. But it doesn't matter, after a short drop, if there is a real core value in your product, users will come back on their own. Because dropping you won't work.
    
    Don't be afraid to offend users. There is a natural dichotomy between paying and not paying, but your company and your team need money to survive. There's no way around it. What you can give back to your users are your best features and first-class service.
    
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