Naomy

This is something I’ve been thinking about too while working on a project recently, so the timing of this post is perfect. Really insightful perspective, thanks for sharing this Nika :D From how you framed it, what clicked for me is: free = helps people understand the value paid = helps them actually get results faster or at scale So basic use cases or smaller usage make sense to keep free. But...

I think all of these are symptoms of the same thing: friction before trust. Vague messaging, heavy onboarding, forced permissions, cluttered UI they all ask the user to invest effort before the product has proven it can help.

Love this list, thanks for sharing it 🙌 I noticed I gravitated more toward productivity and ops tools. Totally agree on Notion their AI and meeting features actually changed how I capture and organize work, with way less context switching. Figma’s launches were consistently solid too, and on the ops side, tools like AskYura quietly became part of my workflow.

For day to day automation, I usually rely on tools that quietly handle my workflow : @Zapier is still my go to when I need something reliable that connects to almost anything. Also recently I added @AskYura to my stack for background tasks like checking data statuses or updating notes automatically. It handles the micro tasks I usually forget, and the time saved really adds up. These two have...