If you're in a niche where there are no freemium models/plans, is it still a good idea to offer one? It seems to me that many of the examples provided are of businesses in highly competitve spaces, where free alternatives likely already existed/were being offered by competitors already.
Depends on how able are you to offer that, without more background info it's harder to say. But then it also boils down to intent, just like I said in the article.
You might have created a blue ocean for yourself and say "I don't need to offer freemium". But exactly what I'm trying to reach in the written piece is this idea around the equality of opportunity — "If your intent is to create a win-win environment and give equality of opportunity so that eventually the next Leonardo da Vinci will come from under your rooftop (and he won’t forget that), this is a way to solve the freemium-to-premium user conversion problem."
