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Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by rexreed on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:26PM (#28200589)
On your site, is there a reason why you hide the pricing and make it so that you have to get a demo to get it? Do you price every customer differently? Is there a reason for no price or cost transparency? That suggests that you're either still trying to figure out pricing, want to be able to charge arbitrary amounts, pricing is too complicated to share, or wanting to hide prices for some reason.

[1] https://www.sourcemedium.com/faq#pricing-plans

Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by 4thethrillofit on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:54AM (#28206352)
It’s because we don’t have a self serviced onboarding which would take a lot longer and resource to build. It’s also not to give sticker shock before they have a chance to learn what it does and whether it’s a good fit. If most of your leads are word of mouth or inbound, having too much stuff on site isn’t necessary.

It’s also just matter of not having time resource to spend on the website.

Having pricing is more important for cheap monthly products that are alot more self services.

Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by davidjytang on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:40PM (#28200719)
> our team will work closely with you to integrate your data sources and setup your dashboard

Seems to have some customization involved. My industry is largely B2B where we never advertise prices for many reasons. Once we reveal our prices, all our clients would stop working with us.

Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by rexreed on Monday August 16, 2021 @03:22PM (#28201785)
I imagine they must know how much it costs to work with you, so why would revealing the prices cause them to stop working with you?
Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by davidjytang on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:10AM (#28208144)
Revealing our prices to the public equals to revealing customers' costs to their competitors and their customers. An industrial habit I guess.

It seems to be very important for project bidding processes.