Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ...
by yarcob on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:56PM
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Size of the market is also important.
Text editor for 30€ is a good business, everyone needs a text editor.
Database client for 30€ is probably a little less profitable, not as many people need that.
Client for a specific database like the protein data bank for 30€ -- well, you might sell two or three copies.
All of these are probably a similar amount of work, but you can't sell them for the same price.
That being said, a menu bar widget has such a huge market that I don't see why they are pricing it so high.
Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ...
by stjohnswarts on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:03PM
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Because they can just lower the price more if it doesn't sell as long as they have enough cash to weather the risk at the higher price.
Paying similar price for simple software? Well, I would expect something like one-time purchase for $10, that's how much I'm paying usually for those kinds of programs.
It might sound a little bit communistic, I know. Sorry.
If I'm making $20k/year, I could pay $10k for Intellij Idea. Because it's essential for my work. But I'm paying $90, because Idea creators put a reasonable price. May be that's because they're in a hard competition with free tools, I don't know.