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Start charging immediately, and put up a real pricing page with SLAs. Find out as soon as possible if people will actually value this enough to pay for it. Thi
by manigandham 7y ago
Start charging immediately, and put up a real pricing page with SLAs. Find out as soon as possible if people will actually value this enough to pay for it.
This provides a signaling of value, creates a real business relationship, and directly contributes to the lifespan of the vendor.
- codezero 7y agoNot to diminish your point but that’s really hard to get right. Most early stage startups have absolutely no idea what their product is worth.
- bfung 7y agoIt doesn't have to be right from the get go. Hard is why it should get done. A free model doesn't really tell their business if there's actually demand and if people actually value it when supply is "infinite" when in reality it isn't. Guess a high price with some research for similar things and lower it iteratively. Def. see what sticks.
- manigandham 7y agoBut that is my point. You won't know until you do it. It's a constant experiment, you just have to start somewhere.
- pas 7y agoThey could go the AWS route, start high and decrease prices. Also they could combine this with discounts, such as if someone preallocates capacity for X month, they get f(X) % discount. They should build a core customer base. Solicit feedback about what niche feature they would happily pay for. For example here's a GitLab issue that I think people would (might?) use: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/15536 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/15536 (provide a "lock service" or a queue with max concurrency gate and launch pipelines / jobs)
- theli0nheart 7y agoIf everyone avoided doing hard things, our world would be a lot worse off.