[Fission]

We use iA Writer daily at satchel.com. We pay a one-time cost of $30 per seat, but I think we get much more than $30 worth of value from iA Writer. So when I read the article, I thought that the $5 per month price is much too low for the value we get out of the product. And then I realized it's actually $5 per year.

Which brings up an interesting observation: the folks at iA seem to be tech purists at heart, and seem disinclined to ask for more money for their products. But I suspect that people would surely be willing to pay more money, and that if they were to price-segment their customers (e.g. by building out some collaboration features for teams, which we would love to have, and then charging a premium for that), they might be able to effect a step function in their business.

[valuearb]

I always worry when a beloved app seems underpriced, and wonder how long they will be able to stay in business.

[jmnicolas]

I don't think you representative of a lot of customers.

Where I work I must do without critical software because it's deemed too expensive by the management (weekly restaurant outings for the managers aren't deem expensive though ;)

[Fission]

I think that's okay though. If we're only representative of only 5% of the iA userbase, but we're willing to pay more than 20x of the subscription price ($5/yr → $8.33+/mo), then the 5% of users like us can double iA's revenue.