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Create up to 3 notes? Srsly? :-) I don't need to collaborate to 50 people like a real "pro" would but I won't even bother registering to create 3 notes. Something around 1000 notes would make a reasonable limit for a free personal edition.

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It's an unlimited duration free trial. The copy suggests it's usable and fair enough, it isn't really. But that doesn't invalidate the remainder of the product. This looks like it just launched, they're likely still iterating on the copy.

I mean, the same page also says "We need to charge, because we can't sell your data", so let's not get stuck on such a small detail.

I must say that for a just-launched utility SaaS, this looks remarkably well done. Clear targeting, good website, no nonsense.

This is reasonable, nevertheless they should give at minimum some dozens notes for people to actually try that. 3 notes sounds more like "fuck off". Even a time-limited (what I generally find a bad idea too) trial would be better. And I doubt some 100-1000 notes would eat too much resources unless they let you insert HD video in the notes (which absolutely should be a paid premium feature if it actually is there).

I don't think that people understand that paid limits sometimes aren't there for you to hit or even get anywhere near. It's like how Dropbox doesn't offer a paid tier less than 2TB. It's not like most people need 2TB it's just that the idea is once you're paying it's unlikely you need to worry about the limit.

Why? Why does the free edition owe you anything?

It doesn't.

But I'm not going to bother trying it at "3 notes for free".

It doesn't, but it is odd that this is marketed as something usable.

. "Personal Free: Ideal to get started"

A 3-note-limit is not "ideal" for anything.

It would be better advertised as a free trial (purely for evaluating otherwise paid-only service), rather than pretending they have a free plan.

Well from an adoption standpoint it would be nice. I'm not going to even really bother with software that limits its free users so much. I mean I would TRY it but I'm not going to get a true experience out so few notes. And as a result I'm not going to buy it because I wasnt able to try it.

I'm not saying 1000 notes is the answer. Maybe its 50, maybe its 500. But 3 certainly is limiting.

It's not really a matter of being _owed_ anything, it's more that a lot of people aren't likely to pay for something unless they know they're going to use it, and 3 notes doesn't seem like enough to really see if it's sustainable. They don't have to have a free tier at all, and likewise no one has to try the product out. However just because we aren't "owed" anything, doesn't mean we should just accept _anything_.

Nothing but you might as well have no free tier under those restrictions.

Not offering a free version is totally reasonable, but calling this a trial version would seem more honest.

Why are customers not free to decide what makes a product worth using?

$48 US a year for a note taking app, again death by subscriptions... I'm so tired of this model.

How would you prefer to pay for your software?

Once and only once

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