It disappoints in every way, you can't even check yesterdays stats.
It's a business service, not a consumer service. Apples to oranges. People will pay for it.
Usually too early you don't want many low paying customer which would imply too much support while you iterate quickly. A low number of high paying customer is much better.
It's also easier to lower the cost later than increasing it. It's hard early on to find the right price point.
If he doesn't sale as much as he want, he will adapt.
If he had offered it for free initially, haters would say the author must think it is worthless.
This place is the last bastion of civility on the internet. Let's keep it constructive. Pretty please?
Also, it’s easier to raise prices than to lower them. If you lower prices, you need to do it for your current users too or they’ll complain. If you raise prices, you can grandfather people in AND it can be used to incentivize people to buy before the price goes up.
Besides you don't want to be dealing with desperately trying to convert free users later, or worse, having to grandfather everyone in at free forever from your initial launch. Gotta pay the bills somehow.