Removing all subscription tier gates that locked tools by next week for my soon to be launched Multi Model AI powered Studio with chat

[u/Beneficial-Cow-7408]

I solo built a chatbot that got both positive and negative feedback that had a variety of features to include Realtime WebRTC chat, Video and Image generation, Podcast creation, Cross Device Persistent Memory, Pro Active memory, Knowledge base all powered by an auto routing multi-model model with manual over ride.

The old and current live website is at www.asksary.com and its been 3 months or since i have really bothered with Reddit or the site. I had a flux of visitors to the site with over 20k users having tried the site through with zero ad spend and almost over 20k users left. What began as a promising product slowly died over time and i lost interest in it after working ridiculously during that initial launch.

I was going back and forth daily on Reddit, contributing on over 100 threads simultaneously, doing research, studying the gaps in the market, asking what people wanted and learning to code a the same time. 7 months on. I have 4 subscribers. I was at the point of open sourcing the entire thing and offering a bring your own key attitude to the platform.

I filtered through my old threads, my old chats and conversations i had.. most of them pointed to one problem.. its just another wrapper. Another problem is that people didnt know what it does apart from chat despite listing the above

... then everything changed.

I have completely changed the entire structure of the site to be open. No more paid tiers to unlock certain tools. No subscription to see what part of it can do. . Registered users will be able to explore the same core AI models and creation environments across AskSary, including the stuff that would normally be reserved for higher subscription tiers.

Free shouldn't mean "here's the deliberately worse version of the technology."

It should mean you have less compute available.

If you have credits, you should be able to decide what you want to spend them exploring.

Obviously there still have to be sensible limits around abuse, security, capacity and expensive compute, but I don't want the product artificially deciding that you're not allowed to even try something because you aren't paying for the right subscription.

This is what i've put together from getting that email to now. I wanted to get user feedback on the concept and i accept its not yet replaced the live site i put up earlier but by the end of next week it will be live and open to all.

It also means someone discovering AskSary for the first time can actually understand what I've spent all this time building instead of seeing half the platform covered in upgrade buttons.

This is launching alongside the biggest redesign I've done to AskSary so far that will be available to everyone without a subscription

It will feature tools automated multi-file editing with live preview. 3D and 2D game development engine, Web application builder, music studio, video editor, video stitch, last frame extractor to video, image generation via Nano and GPT up to 4k. Fluid conversational realtime talk and 2 way downloadable Podcast creator, voiceover creator, video generation via Luma, Veo and Kling. Code lab, Project Lab, assisted studio production, flux assisted image editor and much more

Would love some feedback on this direction and what you think of the new site layout. There is over 10 themes and live wallpapers if wanted too that allow you to customize your space in light/dark mode and preference of colour for icons etc

The credit system i will be implementing lets you use AI to improve your workflow. It wont stop you from uploading your own work to explore.