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Ask HN: How to price a software?

4 pointsby ashitvoraover 14 years ago
What factors to consider when pricing a product? Should I consider the efforts and time I've put in or should I price it based on the demand and availability of such other products?<p>Also, is it ok to raise the price in future when I roll our new features?

2 comments

patio11over 14 years ago
It is OK to raise your price for any reason or none at all. If you think a higher price is profit maximizing, raise your price. If a competitor lowers their price to undercut you, that sounds like a great opportunity to raise your price to make it clear you beat them on quality.<p>Your effort matters <i>zero</i> -- customers will only see what they get, not what you do. BCC is five times as much code as I write for consulting clients, but they pay several orders of magnitude more for my work. Pricing based on the availability of other products only makes sense if you compete with them: ideally, you have ready answers for why you do not.
fezzlover 14 years ago
Price based on the value you deliver. If you estimate that you can save/make businesses an average of, say, $100 a month, price lower than that but not so low that you can't profit from it.