Flighty · B2C · flight tracking app
Give the first flight free with every pro feature, then lock some
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What they did
Flighty moved from a hard paywall toward a hybrid: the first flight is fully free with all pro features, then some premium features lock after it. Host suggests the pattern for high-cost apps (e.g. one free deep research per month).
In their words
Sub Club by RevenueCat · How a Single Paywall Experiment Generated $50M – Jeff Morris, Chapter One, Ex-Tinder“he has a really interesting model where now the first flight is completely free with all the pro features. And then if I remember correctly, some premium features then get locked after the first flight.”
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