Liinks · B2C · link-in-bio page builder
Add a ~$3/month premium plan to your free tool to see who pays
Reached $100 MRR within a couple of months
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What they did
After the Product Hunt traffic, launched a premium version at around $3/month to check whether people would pay at all, then looked at how to scale it.
What happened
~100 MRR within a couple of months
- Stage
- Monetization
“And that's kind of when I started thinking about monetizing it, and I was just curious, I was like, "Would people be willing to pay for this?" So, I launched like a premium version at the time, and I think it was maybe $3 a month, something like that.”
“Got to like 100 MRR within a couple months, and then started looking into how to sort of scale that.”
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