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textread on May 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I wrote a SaaS product because the internet made m...

I love your idea of using a free product as a marketing tool.

Are there any resources/case studies to validate: "if you corner the market for the free product it can bring a lot of valuable traffic."

redis_mlc on May 29, 2020 [–]

Plentyoffish.com broke Google's Adsense payout system - the monthly checks were too large to process!

(#1 dating site, monetized with Google ads. Ugly. Markus Frind later sold it for $575 million.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-markus-frind-bootstrappe...

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