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This is a solution to a core problem of mine. My current workflow is to create/edit a google doc or quip doc for all of my notes/todos/daily planning. The price point is reasonable, and is something I would pay for as part of my personal "productivity" software budget which includes tools such as Jetbrains/grammarly/overleaf etc.

However you are too fast to make me enter my credit card info. It's 2022, can't I at least play with the app to see if it's what I want? Demo for a day? Create just one page of notes?

As it stands the landing page was not enough to get me over the hump to put in my credit card info. I somehow can't get back to the landing page now that I started the signup flow.




my 2 cents:

1. Give people a free demo so they can get their data into the system.

2. After the trial period, let them export the data out if they want (don't make the credit card request seem like a ransom request).


Personally, I’d expect to lose access to data if I stopped paying for it. As a good practice, the company could make it read only for some time before archiving it (what happens if I sign up again!).

Archival storage is so cheap these days that it doesn’t make sense to delete customer data unless they ask, or you are in B2B.


That's actually how we do it. Once your trial ends, we switch the account to a read-only mode.


Just give me the trial without the cc then :)




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