This isn't a lesson learned, or a lesson failed. This is an active marketing effort.
I am building up the waitlist for a macOS app I'm about to release. It will be paid (in some manner) but the first 100 users to get on the waitlist will get a free lifetime license.
https://x.com/kevinelliott/status/2110943811975463286
This could work out incredibly well, or it could totally fail and still nobody will care. This is a test.
And then I'll have a "lesson" to share after.