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Comment by inopinatus | Hacker News Reader

Have you considered increasing the price?

I'm serious. I'm not a mobile app publisher, I don't know anything about app discovery through the Play store, but I have experienced the paradox of increasing sales by increasing prices in other channels.

I'm not super up on the psychology at play, but I've read it's because people use price as a proxy for quality/utility in uncertain markets.

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I think that the price is pretty high already for app store standards :)

And honestly, if you look at the app, a higher price would feel like a ripoff.

Well it might be worth a try - you at least don’t have to worry about killing your sales :)

Touché... :D

Economically, if you deliver value, you deliver value. Does not matter the price, if it's worth doing and generates profit for me.

I know.

But what value would you assign to "being able to check Kibana on AWS from the phone"?

Here's my metric: I do complicated merges once in a while. If Beyond Compare (price = 60$) helps me resolve the conflicts in few minutes, of what used to take an hour of cursing and sweating, I pay them and consider the money well spent, because I can spend that hour (and a lot of others) that the tool freed up for me, earning money. The tool pays for itself basically.

If it's a niche market, low prices is rarely a viable approach because you won't have a lot of volume. Also, all the info you have about app stores and revenue are based on the total mass, or on the top-100 lists, and niche apps fall completely outside of it. There are actually a few narrow categories where you can get away with a high price.

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