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Help Price Website Builder


Hi all!

I have a dream of providing a website builder for everyone on the planet. I have a working, robust product, people tell me the results start to look great. So far it has been free but obviously this model doesn't scale. I can't possibly pay the operating costs for that many websites.

I wanted to come up with a pricing that is 1) free for hobby sites, 2) really cheap for professional use, 3) pays the bills. Here is the best I was able to come up with:

http://boomla-theme.boomla.net/pricing

What do you think? (Time to be ruthless.) Or maybe you can suggest something even better?

Cheers, Tibor


  👤 gus_massa Accepted Answer ✓
If patio11 ever read this, he would say:

fake quote> Raise your price! Raise your price! Raise your price!

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2006/08/14/you-can-probably-stand-...

Also, the price structure is too complicated. How much should I pay for an obscure blog that is hit from time to time with a small HN visit?

Take a look at https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953 801 points | Apr 3, 2014 | 311 comments. But note that cperviva actualy lowered his price a few days after this post. Not everyone agree with patio11 :).