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Okay, what do you want to compare it to?

by nebulous1 7y ago

GhettoMaestro 7y ago
Shocking idea: Start by not using Netflix as a reference. They aren't even in the same industry. It looks logically sloppy.
- Multicomp 7y ago
  MS Office 365 gives you 1TB of cloud storage and access to web and desktop versions of the world's most popular office productivity suite for $6.99 a month. I don't find it unreasonable that the parent comment considers $9 / month for the value proposition of what is a relatively unique / untried / new (less than a decade old) software category (database for your interpersonal relationships) to be too high. Until one has time to use the software and have it help you remind yourself what the guy you've only met 4 times in the past likes for lunch, you are paying 'more than an MS Office subscription' for access to the data you entered previously, and unless you quickly become a power user for the software, will use the Monica product for less time per week than MS office, at least in many office jobs. EDIT: That value may be there once you have used the software, but someone is hardly being a cheapskate for not wanting to dole out $9 a month for something they don't yet see the full value prop of. Edit Edit: Hippo CRM costs $1.50 a month , with a reduced albeit same ballpark functionality.
sbarre 7y ago
Instead of evaluation by comparison, why not evaluate it simply based on its merits and the value it provides you? You've been abundantly clear in this thread that this SaaS product wouldn't provide you with good value for the money they want. That's totally cool, you're not the target market for them (at their chosen price point). But other people do see value at that price. So what does that tell us? Nothing! Unless two things provide the same service, it's kind pointless to compare them because the relative value is tied to other subjective factors that aren't universally relevant.

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Okay, what do you want to compare it to?

by nebulous1 7y ago

Okay, what do you want to compare it to?

GhettoMaestro 7y ago
Shocking idea: Start by not using Netflix as a reference. They aren't even in the same industry. It looks logically sloppy.
- Multicomp 7y ago
  MS Office 365 gives you 1TB of cloud storage and access to web and desktop versions of the world's most popular office productivity suite for $6.99 a month. I don't find it unreasonable that the parent comment considers $9 / month for the value proposition of what is a relatively unique / untried / new (less than a decade old) software category (database for your interpersonal relationships) to be too high. Until one has time to use the software and have it help you remind yourself what the guy you've only met 4 times in the past likes for lunch, you are paying 'more than an MS Office subscription' for access to the data you entered previously, and unless you quickly become a power user for the software, will use the Monica product for less time per week than MS office, at least in many office jobs. EDIT: That value may be there once you have used the software, but someone is hardly being a cheapskate for not wanting to dole out $9 a month for something they don't yet see the full value prop of. Edit Edit: Hippo CRM costs $1.50 a month , with a reduced albeit same ballpark functionality.
sbarre 7y ago
Instead of evaluation by comparison, why not evaluate it simply based on its merits and the value it provides you? You've been abundantly clear in this thread that this SaaS product wouldn't provide you with good value for the money they want. That's totally cool, you're not the target market for them (at their chosen price point). But other people do see value at that price. So what does that tell us? Nothing! Unless two things provide the same service, it's kind pointless to compare them because the relative value is tied to other subjective factors that aren't universally relevant.