Indie dev learns the hard way: generous free credits kill the urge to pay
gefei55 · x · 2026-09-16
Developer gefei55 shared a user survey result: asked if they'd pay to keep generating AI portraits, users said no — because "free credits are enough." His takeaway for consumer AI products: don't give away too much free quota, or you remove any reason to upgrade to paid.
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