Comments on: The Road to 2.0 - Part 1: Upgrades and Pricing http://leefalin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-road-to-20-part-1-upgrades-and-pricing/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:09:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jack http://leefalin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-road-to-20-part-1-upgrades-and-pricing/#comment-52 Jack Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:03:47 +0000 http://leefalin.com/?p=38#comment-52 Very interesting. My perspective as someone who does not code, but often uses niche products like Screen Mimic, is that a price up to about USD 80 is completely acceptable if the product is going to be really useful to me. I do a lot of audio editing and use an app called Amadeus (now Amadeus Pro). It is priced very low - USD 40 - considering the power of the app and the fact that there are very few other apps available that do the job. The key thing is to give users a fully functioning demo to play with. This can be limited to a certain amount of time (30 days) or can have other ways of ensuring it cannot be used as the 'real thing'. But full functionality is key. Most serious people out there need to get the job done, and in many cases we rely on the work of small scale programmers to make our lives easier, so we can focus on our creative work. I salute small scale programmers!! Don't worry about pricing your products higher than the USD 20-40 mark. Very interesting. My perspective as someone who does not code, but often uses niche products like Screen Mimic, is that a price up to about USD 80 is completely acceptable if the product is going to be really useful to me. I do a lot of audio editing and use an app called Amadeus (now Amadeus Pro). It is priced very low - USD 40 - considering the power of the app and the fact that there are very few other apps available that do the job.

The key thing is to give users a fully functioning demo to play with. This can be limited to a certain amount of time (30 days) or can have other ways of ensuring it cannot be used as the ‘real thing’. But full functionality is key. Most serious people out there need to get the job done, and in many cases we rely on the work of small scale programmers to make our lives easier, so we can focus on our creative work. I salute small scale programmers!! Don’t worry about pricing your products higher than the USD 20-40 mark.

]]> By: Outer Level » Blog Archive » The Road to 2.0 - Part 1: Upgrades and Pricing http://leefalin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-road-to-20-part-1-upgrades-and-pricing/#comment-51 Outer Level » Blog Archive » The Road to 2.0 - Part 1: Upgrades and Pricing Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:56:32 +0000 http://leefalin.com/?p=38#comment-51 [...] Lee Falin has started a series on taking his product, Screen Mimic, to version 2.0. [...] [...] Lee Falin has started a series on taking his product, Screen Mimic, to version 2.0. [...]

]]> By: Jon Trainer http://leefalin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-road-to-20-part-1-upgrades-and-pricing/#comment-50 Jon Trainer Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:12:27 +0000 http://leefalin.com/?p=38#comment-50 Nice write up, Lee. It's always nice to see how others determine the price of their products. A comment about reason #1: I wonder if it is just women or the outside observer, or both. When you are working deep in your code, you know how much work went into getting that little button in the corner to do its magic. "Hey, I spent a week to get that thing to look right." A weeks worth of work to me is worth x numbers of dollars. A user or outsider looks at that button and says "it looks pretty", but so what -- It's a button. To them the app with out the button is worth $20. The app with the button is worth $20 dollars, but I like the app a little more. I look forward to the rest of your series. Nice write up, Lee. It’s always nice to see how others determine the price of their products.

A comment about reason #1: I wonder if it is just women or the outside observer, or both. When you are working deep in your code, you know how much work went into getting that little button in the corner to do its magic. “Hey, I spent a week to get that thing to look right.” A weeks worth of work to me is worth x numbers of dollars. A user or outsider looks at that button and says “it looks pretty”, but so what — It’s a button. To them the app with out the button is worth $20. The app with the button is worth $20 dollars, but I like the app a little more.

I look forward to the rest of your series.

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