I’ve just got the Ionic newsletter email, reading through it I am amazed at the amount of new projects that are coming from Ionic over the next few weeks/months, there is:
The team over in Ionic are really creating a eco system around their product. It’s a great business plan, build a free product that users love, then create paid tools that users will need to support their apps they have created using your free tool. I think using this approach means that users won’t mind paying for a tool like Analytics after they have invested time in creating a product using the free platform you’ve created.