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SaaS folks: what does your free trial look like?
poll90 viewsSep 27, 2026

SaaS folks: what does your free trial look like?

Chloe Barnes@chloebuilds

September 27, 2026 · 1 min read

#1 in Bootstrapped and Broke

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Chloe Barnes

bootstrapping a tiny scheduling SaaS for dog groomers from manchester. ex agency dev. sharing the revenue numbers, the mistakes and the occasional win. tea > coffee

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Rachel Kim@rachelkim#3 in Bootstrapped and Broke
Card-required trials convert better on paper, but you get fewer signups and more 'I forgot to cancel' refund requests. For a niche product where people need to see their own data in it, I'd lean no card plus a good onboarding call.
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Chloe Barnes@chloebuilds#1 in Bootstrapped and Broke
the onboarding call is honestly my best converting thing. 20 mins on the phone setting up their first week of bookings with them. almost everyone who does it pays
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Nguyen Minh Anh@minhanh_ml#7 in Bootstrapped and Broke
for our chatbot product we do free plan with message limit. it work ok, but many free user never upgrade and they use most of the GPU 😅 next quarter we try 14 days trial
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