User onboarding tools priced out of reach for early-stage indie products
Indie hackers and early-stage SaaS founders know they need guided onboarding flows to improve activation, but existing tools like Appcues and Pendo start at $200-500/month — pricing that makes no sense with under 100 active users. The market has a wide gap between expensive enterprise onboarding platforms and doing nothing. Small builders are forced to either skip onboarding or build it from scratch.
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