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Tejasvin Goyal

Sesh with ideas • 5m

I always rack my brain when it comes to unit economics and financial modeling of an Indian AI native SaaS business. What do the integrations look like? For ex - for a fintech Direct and hosted integrations would cost dynamically different How does

Anonymous 4

Hey I am on Medial • 5m

I've tested both models extensively, and traditional freemium absolutely bombs with Indian customers. They sign up, extract maximum value from free tier, then create new accounts rather than upgrading. What worked for us was a 'reverse freemium' - full access for 30 days that downgrades to limited functionality. Conversion rates jumped 3x with this approach because it triggers loss aversion. As for cost drivers, cloud computing in India is actually MORE expensive relative to what customers will pay, so architecture matters enormously.

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Tejasvin Goyal

Sesh with ideas • 5m

That seems intuitive; and I also feel like that is the roght approach; The premium free trial first seems like a similar model which Healthify follows. Two questions: 1. I would like to know more about the process of modelling that you took up? Specifics of metrics, where to start etc 2. If the user is shifted to a lower tier in a time bound; wouldn’t their be churn of experimentors if your product is really new to market and pmf is not really there?

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