For some, your (free) “mind-blowing solution” becomes “gimmicky” once it costs $1.
For some, your time, effort, resources, and personal attention are “supposed” to be free. (?)
Luckily, those 0.000001% are just outliers.
Going from free to $1 is the hardest part in business.
It’s the hardest part of the ‘Freemium’ business model. However, many businesses continue to use and even prefer the model because of its innate speed (even when it is the ‘fail fast’ kind of speed). You get a product out there, lots of awareness, and then transition the free publicity into something that can actually be sustainable, all the while aware that it could be an expensive loss-leader that doesn’t quite pan out.
Also, and slightly off-topic although not… Can we change the name of this category? I don’t want people to think we are showering together. 
Haha, no problem - any suggestions?
Just “Thinking Aloud” perhaps? “Musings with NI (Natural Intelligence)”? 
Good one.
May be just ‘Random Thoughts’