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> We leave it to users to decide which category to select. Maybe you don't care about people in Senegal or Bangladesh or the Phillipines. That's certain an opti
by seanwilson 6y ago
> We leave it to users to decide which category to select. Maybe you don't care about people in Senegal or Bangladesh or the Phillipines. That's certain an option, but some demonstration that this has crossed your mind is probably a good idea.
Is there some automated way you could come up with reasonable pricing based on IP detected country?
I use Paddle for payments and they offer localised pricing - you either enter the country specific prices manually or you enter e.g. the USD price and it sets a price for each country based on converting this by the exchange rate. Is there a better way than using the exchange rate?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoRight now, most IP address detection mechanisms will place me in Albuquerque, NM. In reality, I'm about 70 miles from there. In the circle defined by that radius, there are families who barely earn $10k/yr and single individuals who earn millions per year. So IP address is not particularly useful in determining the "right price". That said, and as mentioned below, we do use IP address and OECD data on the cost of dining out to pre-seed the one-time payment option (the user is free to edit it as they wish).
- seanwilson 6y agoNetflix, Adobe etc. would never be able to go with what's essentially a "pay what you like" or "pay what you claim you earn" subscription if that's what you're getting at. Isn't there something more practical than this?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoIf the goal is "never leave money on the table", your strategies will be very different than if you goal is "raise enough income to do something you want to do". To whatever extent Netflix or Adobe are attached to the former goal, then certainly they are not going to offer pay-what-you-say-you-can. Whether that's the best goal for them to have, either for themselves or for society at large, is an entirely different question.
- seanwilson 6y ago> If the goal is "never leave money on the table", your strategies will be very different than if you goal is "raise enough income to do something you want to do". The pay-what-you-say-you-can approach is problematic when you want to "raise enough" when you can't rely on people to be truthful about what a fair price is though. I can easily imagine this killing a niche app that's not making thousands of sales.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoI choose to trust people. Partly because I've seen how corrosive not trusting people frequently ends up.
- dkersten 6y agoYet things like humble bundle have been very successful. Sometimes you have to put cynicism aside and trust that people will support you for it. It doesn’t always work out, of course, but society will be better for it. But in the end you have to decide what is right for you and if your app is super niche then maybe it’s not the way you wish to go.