... When we launched our SaaS, the vision was simple: build a product, charge a monthly subscription, and scale infinitely. We wanted that sweet, sweet recurring revenue. But we hit a wall early on. Our product is complex, and users kept asking, "Can you just set this up for us?" or "Can you build a custom integration for our specific workflow?" Because we were desperate for cash, we said yes to everyone. I just finished our monthly

... pushed heavy 40% discounts on annual plans during our launch month to boost upfront cashflow. It felt great collecting cash early, but it created two major problems: Feedback Delay: Annual subscribers rarely give immediate, urgent feature feedback compared to monthly

... drops a Small Business Program developer from 15% to 10% in the EU. On a 4.99 euro subscription, a processor's fixed per-transaction fee can eat most of that on its own - and your choice locks for 12 months. Apple updated the Developer Program License Agreement on 18 August, and the new EU business terms go into effect on 1 October. The coverage I've read frames it as Apple finally opening up. That's true in a structural ... ... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative

... switched LYQN from flat monthly pricing to pure pay as you go. Here's why Hey everyone Quick story on why we ripped out our pricing and started over. We used to charge a flat monthly

... apps convert trials 52% better and churn annual subscriptions 30% faster. The flattering metric lands in week one. The honest one lands in month twelve and by then you've already spent money on the gap. Here's a pairing I can't stop thinking about, and both halves come from the same dataset. RevenueCat published its 2026 State of Subscription Apps report in March. It's built on the subscription apps running through their platform more than ... ... arguing with. The good half: AI-powered apps convert trials to paid 52% better than non-AI apps, 8.5% against 5.6% at the median. They monetise downloads about 20% better. Realised lifetime value per paying user runs $18.92 a month

... your worst cohort by margin, and this is the part that gets people you almost certainly cannot see it. Your analytics tool reports engagement per user. Your model provider reports one number at the end of the month with no user attached to it. Nobody joins those two tables for you. So the flat $20 subscription keeps looking fine right up until the composition of your user base shifts. Which brings me to the thing I'd push back ... ... token price is only one half of your bill. The other half is tokens per task, and that is going the other way, fast. OpenRouter's own data has average prompt tokens per request up around 4x over thirteen months

... engines or AI systems to recognize the brand as. This is the hardest starting position there is: no existing trust to borrow from, everything has to be earned from scratch, on both fronts at once. Where it stood six months later We track this with three sources running in parallel (Search Console, SEMrush, and our own analytics), so these numbers are measured, not estimated: On the SEO side: +330% organic traffic , from a near-zero starting point 224 organic keywords ... ... side: 67 pages cited by AI answer engines Split across four platforms: ChatGPT (48), Gemini (15), Google AI Mode (9), Google AI Overviews (2) Neither number happened instead of the other. Same audit, same content, same backlinks, same monthly

... Ayman, founder of MyDebtLens. MyDebtLens is a debt payoff planning app built by a Colorado-based U.S. company for people in the U.S. It gives users a private workspace to compare payoff routes, test monthly payments, and plan without connecting a bank account. I built it for people trying to make sense of the same debt and monthly

... 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 ... ... much for a lifetime to make it like "pay 200 euros"? :D Comment from Mustafa Arian(@thenameisarian): on pricing: i'd kill the lifetime plan even though people will ask. the loudest lifetime askers usually churn after 3 months

... been something I have been very proud of! What is PlanMySemester? PlanMySemester is a website designed to help students stay on track for school, manage their schedule, and gamify their study habits. Core Features Available Now Smart Calendar: Includes monthly, weekly, daily, and agenda views. Events are color-coded by course, and there is an assignment deadline visualization. (Mobile calendar integration is currently being looked into). Assignment Tracking: Create and manage assignments with full status tracking (Pending, In-Progress, Completed ... ... consistent study habits. Course File Hub: Upload and associate course data, syllabi, or slides directly to specific classes. Current Pricing Because of the roadmap shift detailed below, I have significantly decreased the costs of our current premium plans: Monthly

... obsessed with Pricing, and just started testing a new experiment for my startup, @Pretty Prompt : Remove the monthly tier; offer only Free or Yearly (basically no monthly

... have launched my very first SaaS product - BreakGround on producthunt - https://www.producthunt.com/prod... But why I am posting here is because of a different reason. Wanted to share what all I learnt while building this solo in 2.5 months from scratch. As you all know, AI capabilities for coding has seen significant improvement since last 6 months

... incentive to churn. Which meant I had no recurring signal on what actually needed fixing. The feedback was noisy because everyone bought at different price points with different expectations. Support was immediate and permanent. When I raised prices six months later to attract monthly

... months, we were building features based on what users said they wanted. Feature requests. Sales calls. "It would be great if you added X." We built X. Nobody used it. So we stopped trusting what people said and started tracking what they actually did. The dataset We pulled 12 months

... months ago, I launched a product. Beautiful landing page. Great onboarding. Real customers. Solid retention. One problem: AI never mentioned it. Not in ChatGPT. Not in Perplexity. Not in Gemini. We were invisible. And I didn't know why. So I spent the next 6 months

... many found they were invisible. But here's what scared me more: Of those who WERE visible, 43% had incorrect information in AI answers. Not "suboptimal." Not "could be better." Wrong. Outdated pricing. Missing features. Wrong founder bios. Competitors credited for your work. And the average error sticks around for 4 6 months

... Maybe more. Here's the painful truth: Your site is translated. Your AI visibility isn't. When a German user asks ChatGPT in German about your category, you're invisible. When a French prospect searches Perplexity in French, your competitor shows up. Translation AI visibility. And it's costing you. The Data We tracked 200 SaaS companies with multilingual sites at Rankfender. Market % Visible in Local AI Answers US (English) 64% UK (English) 58% Germany (German) 22% France (French ... ... discussing you If those don't exist in the local language, neither do you. The Founder Story Founder: B2B SaaS, 8M ARR "We spent 40k translating our site into German and French. Beautiful work. Native speakers. Perfect messaging. Six months

... Over the past three months, I've spoken with 50+ agencies using Rankfender. Most started the same way: a client asked "are we showing up in ChatGPT?" and they had no answer. Now? Many have built entire new service lines around AI visibility adding 2k, 5k, even 10k in monthly

... marketing problem. They think: "Let the SEO team handle it." Here's why that's wrong: Your product is being evaluated by AI every single day. When potential users ask: "What's the best tool for [your category]?" "Alternatives to [competitor

... just exposure, but the degree to which AI treats your brand as a credible source . Share of Voice (SOV): Represents your brand s voice share within AI narratives the probability that AI mentions your brand rather than a competitor when answering a topic-related question. Sentiment: Captures the emotional tone of AI mentions positive, neutral, or negative showing how AI portrays your brand. Together, these four metrics answer the two most fundamental GEO questions: How frequently does AI mention ... ... brand? and In what tone and context is the brand represented? 1.2 Trends and Competitor

... answer about your category includes comparisons. Always. When someone asks "best CRM for agencies," AI doesn't list one tool. It lists 3-5. And it compares them. The data: Content Type Citation Rate Pages with comparison tables +470% vs. average Pages that mention competitors

... answer first. If they find it immediately, they cite it. The structure makes extraction easy. Step 2: The Comparison Page Template Comparison pages drove 40% of our citation growth. Here's our exact template: Title: [Brand X] vs [Brand Y]: Which is better for [use case]? Quick verdict (100 words) Who wins and why One sentence summary Feature comparison table Feature Brand X Brand Y Feature A Feature B Feature C Price XX YY Detailed breakdown (by feature) How each ... ... performance notes Who should choose Brand X List 3 specific scenarios Who should choose Brand Y List 3 specific scenarios Final recommendation Summary and call to action Result: This template was cited by ChatGPT 12 times in the first month

... Rankfender , we've identified clear patterns. Certain content types get cited 3x more often than others. Here are the 7 content types that win AI citations with real examples you can steal. First, the data: Content Type Citation Rate (vs. average) Best For Comparison pages 3.2x higher "X vs

... actually mention them. Don't be one of them. This 30-minute audit will show you exactly where you stand and exactly what to do next. PART 1: Why This Matters Now Before we start, understand the stakes: Platform Monthly Active Users AI Answer Prevalence ChatGPT 200M+ 100% of conversations Google 5B+ daily searches 37.8% have AI Overviews Perplexity 15M+ 100% AI-generated Gemini 100M+ 100% AI-generated Total addressable "AI answers" daily: Billions. If you're not in those ... ... Minute Audit Step 1: Keyword Selection (5 minutes) Choose 20 keywords to audit: 10 branded keywords: Your company name Your product names Your founder/CEO name Your flagship features 10 non-branded keywords: "[Your category] best tools" "[Your category] alternatives

... winning AI citations? We tracked 2,500 brands across SaaS, e-commerce, B2B services, and publishing. The good news: Being cited in AI answers correlates strongly with: 34% higher branded search volume 28% more direct traffic over 6 months 19% better traditional SEO rankings The bad news: Only 22% of brands appear in AI answers for their core keywords. The other 78%? Completely invisible. What the winners do differently: Factor Winners Losers Publish structured content 89% 34% Update content monthly