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Here's a suggestion for you: introduce a free tier, where a user can perform up to 100 searches per month, and has 50 terminal credits. You let people get a taste of it, without providing credit cards, etc.

I would try it out immediately this way. Otherwise, I'm not giving you my credit card just yet.

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The usual problem with free tiers is that you get low qualify leads through it.

Requiring a credit card increases the threshold and you get more qualified user into the funnel. Also makes it a bit harder for people to always sign up with new accounts to get the credits without converting.

this exactly was I was thinking, I really wanna build this into something with which everyone, even everyday people can do advance level analysis, but it just is not possible by keeping it free of cost

What kind of commitment are we talking about though? It’s pretty hard to quickly tell if I’m in the target demo or not right now.

> The usual problem with free tiers is that you get low qualify leads through it.

Any B2B2C business could write a book on sourcing 1000s of low quality leads. It seems all the literature out there is geared towards sourcing B2C leads.

Yeah but with investment research, as Robinhood has shown, that free data is a goldmine in and of itself.

Thankyou i'm actually planing on doing that aswell, as of now you can try it out without signing up by clicking on get started button, you get perform search and terminal queries free of cost, but what you're suggesting is an amazing idea aswell, increase the number of credits once people signup thankyou so much for that i will work on implementing that

I would say 5 to 10. Anymore than that and they will pay. If they can't pay they will open multiple accounts which you will struggle to stop anyway. Keeping these people in the system is invaluable.

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