I'm starting a web startup that hosts open source scripts such as wordpress, joomla, phpbb etc for free, any user gets a working website, with a sub-domain. Users get free sub-dom …

Hi onstartup.com community, I'm writing you to ask for a first review on an idea, uprising in my mind some days ago. Me and my friend, would take this to a next level but before ev …

We're looking for advice and opinions on economic, effective ways to convert existing users from free to paid subscriptions. Our SaaS product is a slight twist to the traditional …

It seems to me that people care enough about it to pay for it.(just search "my background") and personally, given the right price, I would. I'm asking this because I want to know …

Hi list, I finally released today my latest creation: nuvola, a tag cloud generator that takes a text and generate a piece of HTML with a default CSS to style it to sounds like a t …

There are certain aspects of what I like to call the "Freelancer suite," basically tools that are designed specifically with the freelancer or small web team in mind. They basicall …

I have a website that I would like to add registration and plans (ex: premium membership, free membership) and charge the customers on a monthly subscription basis. The existing we …

There are numerous examples of SaaS products stuck with lots of users and few paying customers. The common advice is not to give away too much in the free plan and always be upsell …

Hi! All With the freemium model. Should we launch the FREE offerings first, then BUILD and sell the premium stuff, or have at least one premium service available before lauch?

Instead of a monthly subscription, anyone can use the site but advance functions require credits/micropayments. For example, Basecamp - if you add more people its $2 per month per …

What products do you know of, products that have a Freemium model implemented well and successfully - meaning that there is significant count of paying customers in opposition to t …

I own a website service that teaches people a language in a fun way (just one language for now). There are over 50 lessons now and members compete to earn the most points by comple …

There has been some great discussion on whether or not "freemium" (i.e. offering a lite edition) is a good way to go: Lite Version or Trial? To Freemium or not to Freemium Free T …

Could freemium be a good model of earning profit from user generated content services? Let's take same hard example - www.trapster.com. It's a mobile phone application for exchan …

There's a lot of criticism of freemium in the startup community, but in 2009, some of my favourite large software companies moved towards, rather than away from it. Atlassian star …