[rozenmd]

> One payment of $49 for a landing page, and the user will have all benefits of whatever the paid plan will have - for life

This will almost guarantee your product will have a cohort of users that will one-star-review you and do everything they can to hurt your business if you don't implement their often insane feature requests (patio11 calls them "pathological customers")

A lifetime deal where there are ongoing costs incurred by you is almost always a bad idea (unlimited plans too). Someone with a ridiculous workload will come along and take advantage of it, and I'm speaking from experience.

You aren't evaluating interest in your long-term product with a lifetime deal, you're evaluating whether people are interested in paying almost nothing for years of using your product.

Instead, talk to people in your personal network that are already using products like this, and work out what they're already paying, and price around that.

[bruce511]

I concur. One-Time-forever deals result in unhappy customers. They end up with expectation you can't fulfil, which in turn leads to disappointment.

It's better to have a much tighter description of what you are offering and go from there. Keep expectations -really- low so you can over-deliver.