tirrellp
Joined 19 years ago
Joined 19 years ago
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
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Id like you to consider what is the true value-add here not from the perspective of getting paying customers, but from the perspective of the final end customer (the reader). Putting more low quality ai-generated content on the web degrades the experience.
Its nice when you can buy $60/bushel wheat. Its not so nice when your dealer cuts you off.
The extra $40/bushel you pay to produce in-house, thats your insurance policy against having your supplies cut off. In a world where geopolitical lines are shifting, it's a matter of national security and optionality to have your own food production capacity. Risk management.
- You need to learn more about the value proposition of your product so you can best align price with value. If your product saves me $1m/year, that will have very difference pricing than if it saved me $100/year
- If adoption is what you're optimizing for, I'd be in favor of having a completely free tier (even free of transaction costs) up to a certain level, then billing turns on after you reach that threshold. This means customers invest in wiring into your product because it makes them money. By the time they reach the billable threshold, they already see the value prop and happily pay instead of rewiring everything to a new platform.
- If early revenue is what you're optimizing for, start charging immediately to get some intelligence about what customers are willing to pay. If you get some early customers on an underpriced version, thats fine. Grandfather them in under goodwill (for now) and adjust the pricing for net new customers.