cool idea. too expensive. another developer gets greedy and loses customers. when will they learn?

100 buyers x 25 bucks = 2500 bucks
1000 buyers x 5 bucks = 5000 bucks

or anywhere in between. this is far from essential.

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As pricing is always a tough decision, here's the other side of that coin.

1,000 users = 1,000 possible tech support request sources
100 users = 100 possible tech support request sources

As time is the limiting factor, one goal of pricing may be to deliver only the number of customers one can support -- especially for a one-person shop where the software they create isn't their sole means of support. So perhaps this developer (and I am *not* trying to speak for him; just using it as an example) only wants 100 customers.

Whether or not it's too expensive also depends on just how essential you find its features. I used to think $25 was too much for an FTP app. Then I found one I liked that had all the features I wanted, and I found it well worth the price.

-rob.

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Funny how opinions can diverge. When I showed HoudahSpot and HoudahGeo at Macworld Expo the comment I heard most frequently was that I priced them to low. I quote: "Don't you have a family to feed?"

The real question is how much the services provided by HoudahSpot are worth to you. Actually think 15 Euro is not much to ask.

To each his own. Some gladly spend several hundred Euros on Microsoft Office or thousands on Adobe's Creative Suite. Both of which don't see any feature enhancements until the next paid upgrade. Others have a hard time spending a mere 15 Euro on shareware which is actively supported and updated.

Best,
Pierre Bernard
Houdah Software s.à r.l.

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