Unlimited sessions, 500-person audiences: the Creator tier story

The constraint that wasn't actually a problem for everyone

Our Free tier came with a hard boundary: three sessions per month, 100 people per room. It made sense when we launched. We needed to understand how creators actually used Feedr before scaling. Three sessions felt like a reasonable sandbox. For someone testing the platform, it worked fine.

But within weeks of going live, we heard from people the Free tier was designed to frustrate. Not because 100 people was small, but because they couldn't run more than three events. A church running Sunday service, midweek prayer group, and a special event was capped. A podcast host who recorded twice a week hit the limit mid-month. The university lecturer above was planning four conferences in a semester.

The issue wasn't the audience size. It was the sessions themselves. These weren't fringe users. They were the people we built Feedr for: speakers and hosts who go live regularly.

Why 500 is the right number, and how we got there

We didn't pick 500 arbitrarily. We watched the data from early users and conferences. A mid-size seminar might be 80 people. A larger one, 200. We saw a few events push 400. Nobody was asking for 5,000 audience members. That's not what Feedr does. We're not a stadium-sized broadcast platform.

500 emerged as the ceiling where a single host, or a host with one guest moderator running the moderation queue, could still give every comment genuine attention. Beyond that, the experience degrades. Comments pile up faster than any human can read them. Upvoting becomes noise. The point of Feedr is that your audience feels seen, not drowned out.

On Creator tier, with the comment moderation queue, a host can triage what surfaces live. It keeps the energy real without becoming chaos. Unlimited sessions meant creators could run as many events as they wanted. The 500 cap meant we weren't pretending to be something we're not.

What unlimited sessions actually changed for creators

The first speaker to move from Free to Creator was running a ten-week lecture series. Every Wednesday, 60 students. Under Free, she'd have burned through her three sessions by week three. She switched, ran the full series without counting, and sent us feedback saying it removed a mental friction she didn't know was there. She stopped managing her usage and just ran her events.

That's the real shift. Unlimited sessions isn't a feature you'll think about every day. It's the absence of a constraint. You don't have to budget your month, plan around a calendar, or apologise to an event organiser because you're out of runs. You just host.

For conference organisers and recurring-event hosts, that matters more than any single tool in the interface. The moderation queue, emoji reactions, and guest moderator links are useful. But the ability to run twenty sessions in a month without hitting a wall changes how you actually use the product. You become a regular, not a trialist.

The 500 boundary in practice

We've had a handful of events approach 500 on Creator tier. Most stop around 300 to 350. Bigger events tend to jump straight to Pro, where the audience cap disappears and the analytics dashboard kicks in. That's genuinely useful data for people who run large, recurring conferences.

The interesting discovery is that 500 isn't experienced as a limitation by most Creator users. It's theoretical. They hit it only if the event grows. And when it does, they know they can upgrade. It's a ramp, not a wall.

One event manager told us she runs seven conferences a year. Five of them sit between 150 and 280 audience members. She's been on Creator for eighteen months and has never mentioned the 500 cap as a problem. She upgraded to Pro after a 600-person event one April, then downgraded back to Creator because the analytics weren't worth the extra cost for her typical events. That's honest feedback. It means the tiers are actually right-sized.

When unlimited stops meaning what you think it means

We use 'unlimited sessions' as the headline difference between Free and Creator. Technically, it's exact. But I want to be clear about what it does and doesn't unlock.

Unlimited means you can run as many sessions as you want in a calendar month. It means a weekday lecturer running lectures Monday through Friday, plus a weekly public talk, doesn't have to plan around a cap. It means a church isn't restricted to three events. It means you're not making a business decision based on how many times per month you want to engage your audience.

It doesn't mean the moderation burden disappears. Fifty comments in a 200-person event is manageable. Three hundred comments in a 500-person event takes focus. We give you tools (the moderation queue, guest moderators) to handle it, but we're not magicking away the work. You're running a live event. Live events require attention.

That's by design. Feedr lives in the space where creators and their audiences actually connect. Unlimited sessions means you can be in that space as often as you need. The 500 cap means the experience stays tight.