Layla Foster

When launching a product, offering a free plan feels like the obvious choice. More users, more feedback, lower friction. But at the same time, charging from day one gives you a completely different signal. People who pay often use the product differently, give different feedback, and help you understand what they truly value.

The challenge is that both approaches seem to make sense.

A free plan can help you grow faster. Charging early can help you validate faster. There probably isn't a universal answer and it depends on the product, the market, and what you're trying to learn first.

 Hey folks
 Instead of another feature list, let's make this useful. If you have a Chrome extension idea sitting in your notes app, one you keep meaning to build but the setup always kills the momentum, drop it in the comments. I'll reply with how PlugThis would actually approach it: the structure it would generate, the permissions it would need, and where the tricky parts are.
No idea is too small or too weird. Some things people have already been describing:

 - Alert me when I've spent too much time on a certain website

 - Score a Twitter or LinkedIn profile against my own criteria, inline

 - One-click clean up and export the current page

Hey everyone,

We just opened up Causo.ai for sales lead gen.

We originally built Causo for fundraising: help founders find the right investors, research why they fit, and write proper outreach instead of sending hope this finds you well slop to every VC with a pulse.

Then people kept asking us the same thing: