I don't see evidence in that article that the new pricing is better than the old. Did you test how well it performs before announcing that it is "fixed" now? Don't get me wrong, the reasoning for these changes makes some sense, but without validation that it really converts better now, it simply cannot be called "fixed".
The motivation for the change came from chatting with people looking at the site, and hearing strong reluctance from some about having to pay to evaluate the service.
The pattern we hear is that often people want to get it running in a sample app or side project so they can get a feel for it - even if their motivation is to eventually use it with their larger site.
The more precise quantitative results of the change will come now that the pricing change is public. We should do a followup in a week.
Not-so-insightful article but an interesting service provided by the company.
With cloud-based APIs to handle things like DBs (Parse), files (Filepicker.io) and now auth (Dailycred), one can just pretty much do everything on the client-side.
I'd be curious about the decision between freemium (free plan) vs free trial - what was the process for choosing to use freemium? That's something I talk about with lots of founders, and there are specific reasons freemium works well for us at Buffer.
Our motivation with the free plan is to let people who are interested evaluate the service. We tried a 30day free trial, but we heard from some users that they really didn't want to put in a credit card to sign up at first, and some didn't think it was enough time.
By charging more as the number of users grows it ties the cost to the actual value they're getting. With the free tier at 50 users, we think that gives everyone a chance to try it out without giving away the farm.
We've added a temporary coupon code "take2" so if you sign up today it will lock in a 50% off price. (a very good reason to make an account today) It's totally free while you're developing, up to 50 user accounts.
Let me know if you have any questions about the service!
Hi pyrotechnick - saw your feedback and then saw the the title had been moded. I think the new tile is fine (less colorful), but its the same message so I think either is fine.
A mod changed the title, not me.
First I saw your comment, then noticed the submission title had been changed. I figured since the submission title out of my hands, then it makes more sense for the post to match.
Thanks for the feedback though - I hear what you're saying about either user profanity or don't (but don't bother with the censored version)
