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leftnode on March 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Are you working on any side projects that ...

I made it free to get a lot of users using it, and then I'm going to charge for the 2.0 version.

edge17 on March 28, 2011 [–]

best of luck, think this through carefully. I had some software that had some 3-4m downloads for free. We later put out a pay-for version, the conversion rate was quite low (as expected) but netted some okay money for starving kids just out of college.

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