Dropzone
Dev tools
mac app
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
4 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Pricing: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Congratulations on the success of the sale and the price experiment
From 2 comments
Congratulations on your well-earned success and thanks very much for your forthrightness about your numbers. But I think this really shows just how hard it is to make real money…
cageface on HNWow! What a great result! So how does one get featured in the two dollar deal? What have sales done now, back at the normal price? Would you consider dropping the price…
sparknlaunch12 on HN
Objections
Hard to make a sustainable living from the App Store
From 2 comments
Congratulations on your well-earned success and thanks very much for your forthrightness about your numbers. But I think this really shows just how hard it is to make real money…
cageface on HNI'm guessing your $14 price is not the sweet spot for you. Bear in mind you can't even try to price mobile apps as if there was a free market because there isn't. It's…
alvarosm on HN
Low prices may hurt perceived value and support burden
From 2 comments
Or the developer might have to spend more time on support now.
chris24 on HNBut will the developers be able to support Forklift in the future if that's what they're going to sell it for.
89a on HN
Requests
Say what the app does
From 1 comment
it would be nice if you told us what your app does.
RussellZiskey on HN
Share how the sale affected perceived value and support
From 1 comment
You mention a few things that you were concerned about: "That it would reduce the perceived value of my app, that it would upset other customers who missed the discount and that…
Wump on HN
Questions
How was the $14 price chosen and was it too high
From 2 comments
Fair enough. I am interested in the general question "pricing software" and explained my reasoning for how I might go about pricing an App. If John is reading I would really like…
ChuckMcM on HNThis is a great result for a single day, but isn't this a sign of a wrong initial pricing? I would try to lower the price for a month or two, to see how the market reacts. I…
fedebene on HN
Did any full-price customers complain
From 1 comment
Did you actually have any angry customers contacting you who paid full price for the app?
mikemarotti on HN
Alternatives named
Yoink
From 1 comment
To be fair, everything is a repost of a repost. The App stores are a copy of previous app stores, running on a gui, the concept of which was 'borrowed' from Xerox. Copycats are…
_b8r0 on HN