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Some pushback on pricing: this app is a vitamin, not a painkiller. $4/mo is a perfect price for an app I may use daily for years and years with varying levels o
by subpixel 7y ago
Some pushback on pricing: this app is a vitamin, not a painkiller. $4/mo is a perfect price for an app I may use daily for years and years with varying levels of engagement. Like Day One (price: $3.99) or TeuxDeux (price: $3/mo), both of which are quite successful.
Charge $10/mo or $20/mo and your churn will increase as people think "haven't used that in weeks, waste of money" and cancel.
Additionally, I think the term 'open-source' and link to GitHub have no place in your marketing materials at this point. You're gunning for the public now, and your support channel is going to be clogged with questions about why open-source does not mean free or how to install from GitHub.
(Also, this is awesome!)
- flaque 7y ago> I think the term 'open-source' and link to GitHub have no place in your marketing materials at this point. You're gunning for the public now, and your support channel is going to be clogged with questions about why open-source does not mean free. Agreed, basically only using the open source terminology in dev environments like hacker news. So in our screenshots and marketing materials, it's definitely not going to be anywhere. We've expanded outside of just hacker folks at this point and some folks got really worried about privacy because they thought "open-source" meant that the their thoughts would be shared publicly.