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Show HN: I made a site to quick identify any plant and learn how to care for it

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108 points adamaskun | 2 comments | 19 Oct 24 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source

I'm still working on it, curious but what feature may be most valuable for you? What do you think about personalised care instructions, and an interactive chat feature for each plant.
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pixelbro ◴[20 Oct 24 00:33 UTC] No.41891949[source]▶
I can't speak for anyone else, but the offer of a free trial made me bounce right off, despite my curiosity and the value such a product could potentially offer me. I want to know up front whether this is going to be useful to me before I sign up for anything. To that end, offering even a single no-strings-attached identification, even if the details are redacted, would go a long way towards conversion.
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itake ◴[20 Oct 24 01:32 UTC] No.41892189[source]▶
I get it but if you’re a solo founder without VC backing, completely free accounts are really difficult to support.

Free users can create a lot of support tickets. This could be good or bad.

Free users may never convert to paying, which isn’t ideal for bootstrapped ML business with expensive cloud costs.

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1. Brajeshwar ◴[20 Oct 24 02:42 UTC] No.41892503[source]▶
Try Community Support (Forum/Discord/Slack, etc) for the free tier. Support Tickets/Email for Premium.
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2. itake ◴[20 Oct 24 23:28 UTC] No.41899384[source]▶
Creating features and fixing bugs based on Support feedback (Community Support or otherwise) may result in an amazing experience for the free tier, but not-as-good-as-it could be for your paid subscribers.