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Ask HN: Can I charge early adopters for a bare-bone MVP of my product?

Hey guys.

I am just ready with an early MVP of my B2B SaaS - a support center/knowledge base using Notion as CMS.

- Customers can set up the knowledge base on their own custom domains/subdomains. - Embeddable widget for their website so that their website visitors can quickly skim through the available articles - Content auto-syncs from the connected Notion database - No need to make Notion database public. As long as the page is connected, private pages work just as well - Works with Free Notion plan - with multiple collaborators

I am looking to work with some entrepreneurs who could benefit from such a product.

The objective is to get their opinion and experience of the product before I start making a roadmap for the product. (Essentially build the product in collaboration with my customers)

*Here is my question:*

I am not sure about offering the product for free. I want to add some $ value to the price (not even a monthly subscription, but a one time fee) so that I can get a fair understanding of “if this is an actual pain-point customers are willing to pay for.

Does that work? Or will potential customers be ticked off by asking to pay for a bare-bone MVP?

(The product does what it is supposed to. It is just that the MVP doesn’t have customer dashboard and the other nice-to-haves)

If charging them sounds good, what should the price-point be? $100/yr locked-in price?

Would appreciate any feedback you have on this.

Cheers

7 points mx_abhishek 2 years ago 17 comments

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