... read a lot of build-in-public updates tonight and noticed something in almost all of them. The headline number was always one that can only go up. Registered users. Total downloads. Signups since launch. Cumulative anything. None of those can decrease, which means none of them can ever deliver bad news, which is exactly why they get picked. They are the numbers that make every week look like a week of progress, including the weeks that were ... ... they are the same number, I would like to know how you got there. Comment from Arash Rahimi(@irahimiam): Switched from tracking signups to tracking reply rate on yesterday's post for the same reason. Signups only go

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... using. They "sounded interested." That's not the same thing. Your rule "no enterprise features until someone pays first, not asks" is exactly right, and it applies to every feature at every tier. The 47 API rate limit requests vs

... money from the subscription, and the other month the user wouldn't use the full value of the app. So the usage-based is a perfect balance. For me, usage based sees a lot more trying-it-out users, versus standard SaaS. So theres more conversions. Comment from Serdar D(@serdarships): Dansaki's answer is the one I would build on, and I would add one turn to it. Visibility and control matter more than the label on the plan ... ... user heavily uses AI-powered steps, agents, or transformations, credits are consumed faster because real token and compute costs are involved. From the buyer s perspective, pricing stays consolidated. They do not have to reason separately about SaaS fees versus

... News Feed and bringing Spotify, Zynga etc. into it. Google was also launching Google+. Obviously, one changed the internet. The other validated it, even if it didn't pay off. If you think about that shift, we stopped going to the internet to browse our top 10 sites and instead Facebook became the front door to the internet as things collapsed into a feed. It changed how we consumed news, media and entertainment, which meant it also disrupted to incumbent ... ... Substack I'll link at the end, but to avoid UI hopping I wanted to provide the basic summary here. If you've been trying to build something but you're fighting against entrenched user behaviours with a competitor

... help each other build better businesses At Atlas, we see pricing struggles daily - from "what tier am I even looking at?" to "why is this so complicated?" Let's fix some pricing pages together! Who's brave enough to go first? Comment from Laura Cruickshanks(@laura_cruickshanks): @chrismessina  Wow! What a great pricing page. Here are my thoughts... yearly/monthly options are great. i do think having it default to yearly might be a better strategy - i've read that ... ... your open source offering is a great differentiator / trust builder. Maybe move that up underneath your packages, almost like how others advertise their free offering under their paid subs. Comment from Michael Hoy(@michaelthoy): @saritta_hines  I was going

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