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Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by robryan on Sunday January 10, 2010 @07:42AM (#1043002)
Given the prices listed of comparable products if they deliver more value than there competition they should be charging at in the same range.

If your app gets the job done better than visio for a company why shouldn't they pay you a comparable amount?

Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by trevelyan on Sunday January 10, 2010 @08:24AM (#1043030)
Because you are working to put the competition out of business?
Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by piotrSikora on Sunday January 10, 2010 @09:56AM (#1043117)
But, in my humble opinion, fighting with lower price isn't good option (for anyone, in the long run). You should fight with features and/or better quality.
Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by sunir on Sunday January 10, 2010 @02:49PM (#1043534)
Depends on your market position. You can create a lot of value in the marketplace by commoditizing and simplifying an over-serviced, over-delivered, over-matched product.

This works in software too. For instance, Gmail and Amazon Web Services pull prices down on webmail and cloud services respectfully.

If the competition's strength is excellent service for more, provide no service for less. I know it sounds weird, but it has often worked. In a maturing market, many pragmatic and conservative customers will prefer the cheaper, simpler packaged product. The key is that you cut prices by far less than the actual cost of service of the premium competition, so you can make more profit across a wider base of customers.

Re:How much to charge for your Web App? by robryan on Sunday January 10, 2010 @09:36PM (#1044166)
Well there trying to say that they have a better feature set than a product that's worth over $200 but the average price there getting is $5, it's just devaluing the product.