Ryan Cheng

Hey everyone, I'm Long, CEO of Spira AI. Nice to meet everyone here!!

Quick background: I was a founding member and Head of Product at Creatify AI, and founding member of TikTok Creative, CapCut, and Meta Video Ads. I've spent basically my whole career around social media content and how it travels, which is probably why this particular problem has bugged me for years.

Recently the thing that got me: I kept watching friends launch great products, get a nice spike, and then go completely quiet weeks later. Not because the product got worse, they just put their heads back down to build and stopped sharing, and the momentum died in that silence.

Yesterday, I announced that I'm getting ready to launch my MVP.
For now, it'll only be a beta version, but I'm already thinking about things like pricing, plans, and all that fun stuff.
Right now, these are the options on the table:

• Freemium model (some features free, the rest behind a paywall)

• Monthly plan ( 7)

• Annual plan ( 59) with a discounted coupon

• Multi-license packages

What would you criticise, change, or add to the pricing? If you know about a very good plugin I can inspire from and build my own according to it, please, drop them in the comments  I want to learn from the best.
My second question is about dealing with users who complain about pricing. From what I've seen while working with another app, people always seem to have something to say:
"Make it free."
"It's too expensive."
"Do you have a discount?"
And one thing I see a lot: people strongly prefer lifetime plans (should I consider one?)
If you have any tips on how to handle these kinds of comments from users, I'd love to mentally prepare myself in advance. :D

For me, it's usually Downloads.

Thousands of screenshots, random PDFs, ZIP files, invoices, images, and files named things like:

final_v2_FINAL_really_final.pdf