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Greetings Fastlaners. I saw this article on LifeHacker yesterday and thought it was a genius idea. They were discussing in a "Behind the App" about a product called Fences.
http://lifehacker.com/behind-the-app-the-story-of-fences-1694769293
TL;DR: The author of the product was having trouble with distribution, and simply decided to GIVE IT AWAY! Of course, distribution was no longer a problem and the product went viral, so his next problem was how to monetize. He polls users for feature requests and eventually rolls out a (paid) version 2.0. I note they have now switched to a trialware model, but it was interesting nonetheless.
I'm not a dev myself, but I was looking at the self-publishing ebook model which is similar in design.
http://lifehacker.com/behind-the-app-the-story-of-fences-1694769293
TL;DR: The author of the product was having trouble with distribution, and simply decided to GIVE IT AWAY! Of course, distribution was no longer a problem and the product went viral, so his next problem was how to monetize. He polls users for feature requests and eventually rolls out a (paid) version 2.0. I note they have now switched to a trialware model, but it was interesting nonetheless.
I'm not a dev myself, but I was looking at the self-publishing ebook model which is similar in design.
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