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Comment by nprateem | Hacker News Reader

Way overpriced

Thanks, this is useful feedback. The pricing isn't set in stone, and I haven't given it much thought so far, to be honest. Do you have any thoughts around what a more reasonable price point might be?

In addition, I'd encourage you to give the app a shot using the NUDGESHN promo code (3 months free on the pro plan); I'd love feedback on more than just the pricing page!

As an idea, to avoid SMS expenses, you could add support for an external notification provider (like Pushover, that's almost free) to the paid plans. So people can use their Pushover (or whatever) API key to get messages.

I think the pricing is alright. If for $7.99/mo someone can effectively solve their procrastination problem that seems totally worth it. Comparing it to the pricing on something like OmniFocus which is $9.99/mo, seems like there is a market of people willing to pay for this type of software.

IMO price points are OK (guy needs to make some money!) but included text messages is way too low.

Since email is just as good (get phone notifications of it!) I can see a lot of people sticking on free because of this.

I agree. Texts cost less than a cent on Amazon. It looks like you're providing your platform (e.g. the UI, the scheduling software) for free and then marking up the text messages. If I was paying any amount of money for this service I'd expect to be given more text messages than I could reasonably use in a month.

Agreed, that is insane pricing for this. I guess calling and texting isn't cheap, but maybe could price it per event or something.

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