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Fair enough, and I understand, but as a fellow co-founder, I think it's a mistake. I strongly believe in pillar 2 of the PLG mantra... https://openviewpartners.com/product-led-growth/#3-pillars-o...

If you got the sign ups goals you wanted, then ignore, and I'll be happy if you share it with me as it's a good lesson for me to learn here as well. But if you got underwhelming response, you might have missed on an opportunity to really cast a wide net of potential customers. I'm not a data scientist, so I only have a vague idea of what problem you solve, but I will be less likely to send it to my data scientist, compared to a similar product with an un-gated demo / real freemium / reverse trial / time limit trial without a credit card.

I might be completely wrong here, this is just my very humble opinion. If it works for you, then I take my virtual hat off.




We might try out both options here - if you check now you'll see we changed it :)




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