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		seiji on March 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The GitHub Developer Program In a company, many conversations start this way: "Hey, we need more paid accounts. How can we further incentivize people to sign up?" Maybe having a paid account has more utility to you with this added feature? Maybe you should sign up and try it out hint hint nudge nudge?

Argorak on March 6, 2014 | [–]

Another question is: "Hey, we want to provide a good program, but how do we make sure only to people with serious interest sign up?"

Restricting to paying customers is a good way of weeding out people that just sign up because there is a free sign-up form.

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