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I tried freemium with FeedHive. Then again with LinkDrip. ...Then again with Aidbase (cause I'm kinda stupid apparently). Everytime thinking that THIS time it's different. It's not. Freemium works in very few isolated cases - in almost all other cases it will attract freeriders and poisen your analytics, completely jam your support channels, and you'll get "feedback" from users who were never gonna pay. With all 3 products, I eventually changed it. Bunch of people cried every time and then conversions spiked hard. - Free trial. - Paywall. - Study signal ONLY from paying users. That's the way.
In case you're wondering, this is the stage of the market we're at.
I may have accidentally validated an AI business idea. 😆 Not with ads. Not with a landing page. Not with a cold DM. But at a leadership training (at my 9-5) It all started during the lunch: the trainer told me he runs marathons. He's 50+ and got no experience with AI. So I told him how I use AI for my own training: > Running > Cycling > Strength > Recovery > Fat loss > Preparing for my 1st marathon But the part that got him wasn’t the plan, it was the adaptation. Bad sleep? -> Adjust 100 km ride? -> Adjust Family day? -> Adjust Missed session? -> Adjust That was the bridge. 👀 Later we talked about leadership in his business context. I've told him my experience how I managed: 1. Employee conversations 2. Conflicts 3. Motivation 4. Difficult decisions ... all supported by AI. And I've found a business opportunity in his context: > A seminar gives you knowledge. > But real life gives you context. And that’s where AI catches him: not as a replacement for the trainer, but as a sparring partner after the seminar. At the end, I told him: “If you ever want to explore this for your trainings, feel free to reach out.” Back home: I used AI to turn the idea into a concept and sent it to him the next day. Already 2 days later, he replied. 🤯 Now we’ll talk. Maybe nothing happens. Maybe this becomes something. But the lesson already hit me: -> Don’t sell AI -> Show the moment where it becomes useful Something @janubuilds has already been saying for a while. Now I’m trying to figure out the right shape for this. 🧐 > Could be a service > Could be a product > Could be something in between Will also depend completely on what he actually needs. How would you approach the first call?
