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Re:How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice by tptacek on Monday November 23, 2009 @12:35PM (#957741)
You probably get 80% of the value of all these posts with just two bits of pricing advice:

* Don't charge cost-based prices; what you pay to build something has nothing whatsoever at all to do with your price. All arguments of the form "that's just a (wiki|blog|bug tracker|reddit clone) with a * attached" are themselves a subtle form of cost-based pricing.

* Charge more.

I liked the book though.

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Re:How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice by access_denied on Monday November 23, 2009 @01:36PM (#957858)
Additionally, if you do b2b:

* Charge more.

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Re:How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice by tptacek on Monday November 23, 2009 @01:38PM (#957860)
Also, at rev 2.0:

* Charge more.

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Re:How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice by pchristensen on Monday November 23, 2009 @03:05PM (#958029)
In a recent Stack Overflow podcast (73?) Joel said that he would helped the world a lot better if he made a robot that you could ask about software pricing, and it spat out the answer "Raise your price by $200"
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Re:How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice by pkaler on Monday November 23, 2009 @06:16PM (#958354)
It was the This Week In Startups podcast with Matt Mullenweg as a guest.
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Re:How To Price Software Without Just Rolling The Dice by pchristensen on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @11:35AM (#959477)
That's it - too many podcasts to keep straight. Thanks!
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