Is there a best practice / standard approach to a free trial for a web app

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I have an idea for a web app, and would be interested in implementing it, and offering a free trial of say 5 uses before asking people to sign up.

I can think of numerous ways of doing this (using cookies , logging IP adresses off the top of my head, limiting functionality).

Is there a standard approach to this? Are there best practices? Are there any good tutorials on this?

(I would prefer not to go the liited functionality route, as it will not show what the app is capable of).

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