Founder Playbook

Pricing
We think of the free product as being enough features to lose weight, primarily through calorie tracking. Macronutrient tracking, more advanced diets like keto or intermittent fasting, calorie cycling — all of that is in premium. Premium's got over 40 features.

Free = enough to lose weight; premium = 40+ features to level up

Aaron's framework for what goes free vs premium: free covers the core job (calories in/out, which is genuinely sufficient to lose weight); premium is the 'level up' tier with 40+ features for advanced diets, macro tracking, and calorie cycling. They add to premium rather than taking from free.


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Aaron Webster Schaller & Paul Apollo
Lose It!Bootstrapped freemium since 2008 · profitable 2017 · bought back Series A in 2020 · exited to Ziff Davis 2022, fully employee/founder-owned
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