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So how much would you pay for personal use? It seems almost impossible to sell any web app for personal use.
by revorad 16y ago
So how much would you pay for personal use? It seems almost impossible to sell any web app for personal use.
- lovskogen 16y agoHow is that impossible?
- revorad 16y agoHow many examples of web apps can you give me, which are being sold directly to consumers for personal use? By personal use, I mean not for use at or for work. I can barely think of a handful and even those are quite often paid for by the buyer's employer as a perk or productivity investment.
- gojomo 16y agoWhat's the reasoning behind 'almost impossible'? A price point of $40/2-to-4-users, or even $40/year, is much more thinkable for individuals/families than $120/year/person. From the screenshots, it seems like it should be possible to have a cheaper capped-to-a-small-set-of-collaborators version that a family of 3-6 could use, but still charge business prices for more/arbitrary collaborators and other features. (I have a friend who's been looking for a good app to coordinate family tasks with his wife; iPhone apps and simplicity/speed/reliability of interface are of paramount importance... but integration with web/email/desktop, following-features, and threads are all of negligible importance. Flow looks nice but overkill in features and price for this need.)
- revorad 16y agoDo families pay recurring fees for web apps? Apart from some high-quality photo sharing apps, I can't think of any examples.
- jarin 16y agoMobileMe, Geni
- revorad 16y agoThanks, I didn't know about those. I do know some people who pay for family tree research software. MobileMe is also a desktop app though. Regargless, my point is that there are very few web apps that people pay for to use outside of work.
- revorad 16y agoPosted it as a separate question - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356589 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356589
- charliepark 16y agoAs a datapoint, they do for mine (budgeting software, https://www.pearbudget.com/ https://www.pearbudget.com/). $4.95 / month, or $49.50 / year.
- revorad 16y agoHey thanks, that looks great! Hope it's working out well for you.
- dstein 16y agoIt seems almost impossible to sell any web app I think this is becoming (or always has been) a general truth. Customers now expect everything available on the internet to be free. But they're more than happy to pay money for things that aren't on the internet.
- teaspoon 16y agoI pay $12/month each for GitHub and Harvest, both for personal use.
- revorad 16y agoBy personal use, I mean not using it for work. You may be using Github purely for personal use, but Harvest is clearly for business. Do you pay for any other apps?
- teaspoon 16y agoYou're correct; my Harvest use is only personal in the sense that I have a single-user account. However, I do pay for Netflix ($9/month) and TurboTax ($75/year) for non-business use. I used to pay for .Mac, as well.