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We switched from monthly to annual and lost 18% of users — then gained them back
The conventional wisdom says annual pricing locks in revenue and reduces churn. What nobody tells you is the brutal first 60 days. We sent the email on a Tuesday — "Starting March 1st, we're moving to annual-only for new accounts." By Friday we had 23 cancellations and one very long support thread. I nearly reverted. M...
The activation metric that finally explained our 40% day-7 drop-off
For eight months we optimized the wrong thing. Our onboarding flow looked clean in Figma, tested well in usability sessions, and still hemorrhaged users like a screen door on a submarine. We had tooltips. We had a progress bar. We had a welcome email sequence that our copywriter was genuinely proud of. None of it moved...
PLG at a B2B company with a 6-person sales team: what actually worked
Everyone told us we had to choose. Either you're product-led or you're sales-led, and mixing the two is how you end up with a confused GTM and a demoralized team. We tried both models separately — first pure PLG with a free tier and self-serve upgrade, then a full-AE-driven motion after a board meeting where someone sa...
Churn isn't a retention problem. It's a promise problem. The users who leave are the ones who believed what your landing page said and found out the product believed something different.
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Bootstrapped or pre-seed, building in public
Series A/B, running discovery and activation
Hunting for playbooks that survived real users
Finding signal in a sea of noise
Side projects becoming main things
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