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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.