I’m a big fan of this optional Pro subscription for one simple reason:

If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product

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Have you seen a lot of negative sentiment or mostly positive?

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I like the idea but wish the feature set weren’t an uncritical clone of X. Longer casts are good but at 10k, you’re encouraging cannibalization of more thoughtfully composed longform. Just add a newsletter feature with a full editor and archival pub support if you want to go there. They can still be casts, but elevate it. Promote thoughtful writing not Bill Ackman type rants. If you must copy, copy substack, not X.

I’d also recommend looking for at least 20% differentiated media experience that’s not related to the wallet. Probably something with AI. But again don’t copy grok style integration. It’s terrible. Maybe more like cursor etc? A “stream IDE”? Solve threading with AI? I mean, break some interesting new ground.

Most feedback i've seen has been neutral or maybe slightly positive 

One of the stronger bits of feedback I've seen is from @vgr who has pushed for something more akin to substack vs twitter in terms of the 10k character casts which is a good point imo 

I'm interested to see how they iterate on this and provide more benefits to the pro subscription over time

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If people aren't pushing for more then they don't care enough 

And you really want your users to care about the product

So not against the principle of luxury features but just wanting better luxury features

Most feedback i've seen has been neutral or maybe slightly positive 

One of the stronger bits of feedback I've seen is from @vgr who has pushed for something more akin to substack vs twitter in terms of the 10k character casts which is a good point imo 

I'm interested to see how they iterate on this and provide more benefits to the pro subscription over time 

https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x0b288f30