![]() There are other things you can do, like try to get bundled with something else, or offer installation service at a rate. ![]() ![]() You might even find small businesses you didn't think of using you product that will be more attracted to your price. Why should they be turned off by a low price. Enterprise might trickle in after enough freelancers are rocking your system. That's a fact, luck of the draw, however you want to look at it. Basically your product is for freelancers, not enterprise. HN is full of people trying to charge more and a ton of them are going to fail or become irrelevant. And for the FOSS ones, I might even become a contributor or leverage the community for enhancements or plugins in those cases. Why? Because I can get a proven system for many months or permanently at that rate. I wouldn't even consider it at $295 price and many others wouldn't either. Somebody said, "for businesses of any size the difference between $250 and $45 is negligible." Um no, These same people (thousands of comments worth) are royally pissed about the Adobe Cloud pricing and are looking for alternatives. If you want this to be the product you work on and support, try to charge what you can to sustain yourself and grow, but you're going to turn off a bunch of freelancers at some $295 price point that people are suggesting on HN. ![]() If you have future build plans you can always charge for the next version upgrade or specific enhancements. I wouldn't go more than $69 or $79 if you raise your prices at all. And I'm already considering buying yours. You're competing with pancakeapp, buggenie, bugify, redmine, bugkick, mantis, Zoho (on some level) and many more, including some of the cheaper hosted basecamp clones. I'll probably get buried but, here's what I'm going to suggest. ![]()
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