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0 pointsyboris5y ago0 comments

It's not "free" in the sense that there's a download button for it. 99.9% of the people wouldn't be readily able to build the app from source.

Given I've spent 3 years building it, I feel comfortable selling it for this price. When I first released the app I didn't have the source code available; so it's more like a "commercial product" with the source code available if anyone is interested.

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echelon5y ago· 2 in thread

Have you ever thought about charging more?

yborisOP5y ago

It's scary. I sell about 120 copies per month. I suspect charging more will drop it down to fewer than 100 copies. I'd rather more people use the app.

I will be working on adding facial recognition; I might have a pricier option for facial recognition features perhaps.

echelon5y ago

I've never had the experience of pricing a product, but my intuition tells me this could be a win. We occasionally see articles on HN that describe how to increase prices without losing your audience.

Perhaps there are others here that can offer feedback and advice.

Research and experiment. If you do embark on this, a postmortem write-up with your learnings would be a great read.

Best of luck with whatever your plans are. It's a cool app!

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mraza0075y ago

Oh I see, yes I was a little curious that product source code is available and I wonder why people are still paying for the product but you just made it clear with your answer

thanks man !!

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