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Re:Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is ... by yarcob on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:56PM (#26440801)
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 (#26448453)
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.