Ask HN: Recommended resources for pricing digital products/services?
What to price the things I make feels too much like guesswork to me. I would love to know any recommended advice for how to price digital products and services. How did you come up with the price for your project?
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Some resources I've collected about pricing:
https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/a-simple-argument-for-investing-in ↗
https://zimtik.com/en/posts/lessons-learned-on-saas-pricing ↗
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/payback-period ↗
https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/07/01/dont-insult-me-with-your-pricing.html.html ↗
https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/ ↗
http://justinmares.com/why-real-businesses-dont-charge-5month ↗
https://adilaijaz.medium.com/6-questions-to-ask-before-adopting-usage-based-pricing-77bf2a669309 ↗
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/saas-pricing-strategy ↗
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/29/subscription-based-pricing-is-dead-smart-saas-companies-are-shifting-to-usage-based-models/ ↗
https://www.bannerbear.com/blog/don-t-charge-a-month-for-your-product/ ↗
https://danmorozoff.substack.com/p/ai-reversion-to-the-old-days-software ↗
Take a look at this video of Michael Dearing on pricing.
https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/harrison-metals-michael-dearing-on-pricing/ ↗
The website is really weird: there's no obvious way to play the video. Clicking on a word or paragraph plays the video at that place. So you can click on the letter "I" in the first sentence "I was just telling the" of the first paragraph.
I suppose you can directly access the video here: https://d3aeja1uqhkije.cloudfront.net/2013-07-16-michael-dearing/2013-07-16-michael-dearing.mp4 ↗
The book Monetizing Innovation is a book all about pricing [0]. It's a great read. I'd also recommend this talk by Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman, who talks about pricing with regards to product market fit [1].
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product-ebook/dp/B01F4DYY1I ↗
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhDj_C4Qzhk ↗
Saved this from HN a while back: https://neildavidson.com/downloads/dont-just-roll-the-dice-2.0.0.pdf ↗
Also from patio11: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pricing ↗