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Comment by smalter | Hacker News Reader

Definitely constructive, thanks for this.

I don't use your product, but I feel like the poster above doesn't apply the correct value to your product. You are helping 10 of their employees. 5$'s is a small fee, 2$ is a small fee. Neither breaks the bank. Set your price point at what you're conformable with. Not to the idle promise of "I can do this, so it should be cheaper". They're underestimating the work/effort of creating it and the value it provides.

You're right that it doesn't break the bank. It just feels overpriced.

I am not underestimating the work/effort that goes into creating it, I am very aware of the effort required. My primary motivation for using it in the first place was because I was too busy to write something like this myself, and for that the price is fair - my time is worth more right now.

But I don't think a system which sends out email reminders and logs daily text updates is $600 per year software, sorry.

The author is clearly perfectly entitled to keep the price at whatever level he likes, and I wish him all the luck in his endeavour.

Agreed. Most businesses actually don't care what a service costs if it does two things..

1) something useful they need 2) cost is low enough that they don't need to get approval

A/B test pricing changes if you do anything. Most companies have a problem of undercharging for a service, not overcharging.

Keep in mind your dealing with programmers on Hacker News, but most non-programmers don't think anything is necessarily simple or easy to recreate.

Great job, and good luck on future sales.

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