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by mbyrne 5361 days ago
Criticism about price from people who aren't actually customers is worthless, particularly because you don't even know who your customer is. You'll find out when you launch something.

Price is also a way to pick your customers. You want to deal with people who have money and value your product, or critical, complaining cheapskates and ingrates? Pushing yourself to lower your price pushes you to commodify your product and strip out what might be creating all the value.

You can also A/B test your pricing on your landing pages to graph out a demand curve for your service that will let you optimize your pricing to maximize yield, but I think pricing based on value creation and cost of substitutes is a better way to go.