I don't like freemium models, they don't work in the majority of cases.
While I respect freemium can work for some, for the vast majority it is a completely overused model. You are not going to make money on freemium unless you have a large user base, period.
This _really_ makes me unlikely to take your product serious as I don't know whether or not you will be here tomorrow. I have been stung before by tools with freemium pricing that ceased operation. I would much rather you charged a fee that was sustainable in the long run.
I do tend to agree, unless you reach large numbers of users and get around a 2% - 5% conversion rate to paid subscriptions I don't think freemium is good.
However, with it being a task management app it isn't impossible that it will break this kind of number. Though with the competition it may be a bit of a long shot.
I think the key question is whether they will reach that level of users...I guess not. To reach 10 million + users which is the only way I see to make this worthwhile would take a massive amount of effort in a crowded marketplace like this, it isn't likely at all.
So with that being said, going freemium is probably the death-knell for the product.
Thanks for the feedback I appreciate. While it is beta we are not charging and what you're using now will remain free but we will be looking at expansion, for more information you can take a look here.
tosh, I have become more and more interested in Dart recently and was wondering where you use it in the company?
I have read Quire's (http://www.quire.io) article on using Dart to develop their application and it seemed very positive. I just wondered about your experience.
Right now we use Dart for the desktop browser optimized version of Blossom and for a bunch of command line/build tools to manage things like building, testing, release tagging and deployment.
We're super happy with the language and platform. DartPad (https://dartpad.dartlang.org/) is a great way to get a feeling for the tool support of Dart (semantic autocompletion, helpful warnings etc).
I'll write more about Dart and how we use it at Blossom (https://www.blossom.co) going forward.
While I respect freemium can work for some, for the vast majority it is a completely overused model. You are not going to make money on freemium unless you have a large user base, period.
This _really_ makes me unlikely to take your product serious as I don't know whether or not you will be here tomorrow. I have been stung before by tools with freemium pricing that ceased operation. I would much rather you charged a fee that was sustainable in the long run.