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What you need:

1) Determine if people are people happy with it

2) Happy customers championing your product for you

3) Charge for your product

How:

1) Start tracking if users continue to use your product/are happy with product (sounds like you already can do this).

2) Once you know your free customers are happy to use the product begin to monetization the product.

3) Build code to help your existing users spread your product

    - Create the ability to email friends free account codes from inside the app.

    - current users are limited to two free invites

    - first round invited users are limited to one free invite

    - second round invited users can not give out free invites
4) Once the above code is ready, start charging for the product on the app store.

5) Release "invite a friend" code

6) Experiment with price

7) If you fall on your face & fail, begin offering the product for free again and re-evaluate how you determine if you are making your customers happy.




Some nice ideas here thanks


I think my what 1-3 is 100% right. The how obviously is my knee jerk reaction. Good job on identifying a need, and good luck monetizing!




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