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> 15 sounds a bit high though

No way. Time is short. They aren't selling carrots. This isn't a commodity. There's no "market price" for a quality service. If you don't think it's a quality service, then don't use it. If you do think it's a quality service, then $15 is a no-brainer.

I follow the Patio11 school of thought. Charge more. Then charge more again. You should be doing that for your own services and you should be using services which do this.

Sure, there are some consumer focused services which in reality do need to be price conscience. Roam isn't one of these services.

As I said in another comment, if Roam were a commodity, then why are we even talking about it? Let's change the subject. So, Notepad...

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$15 a month is a ridiculous price, that's $180 a year, for a note taking App. Compare that to Photoshop + Lightroom in the photography package which are 12 Euro a month here and we can all agree offers a lot more features than roam.

The funny thing is if they would have tried to charge a one of $300 people would have called the price crazy, but buy making it a subscription it's suddenly OK. Even though $300 doesn't even correspond to 2 years of subscription (and for notes you quickly end at having to pay for >10 years)

Everyone should aspire to charge ridiculous prices for their products.

Why are you going to let Evernote tell you how much you should charge?

> The funny thing is if they would have tried to charge a one of $300 people would have called the price crazy

Funny you mention that. They have a one off $500 option and they claim to have made more money from that option than they have from their investors.

We shouldn't end up paying for software by the number of features it has. We should end up doing it for the amount of value we get from it.

Roam is a niche market and so is always going to be more expensive than more commonly used software, because there are fewer people to pay for the common expenses - same reason I have to pay more for books here in Denmark than I have to pay for English books - the cost of creating them gets stretched over fewer people.

> I follow the Patio11 school of thought. Charge more. Then charge more again. You should be doing that for your own services and you should be using services which do this.

Good luck with that. Many, many companies have learned the hard way that it's easy to price yourself into bankruptcy. Especially in extremely competitive sectors.

For sure, more power to them. Charge as much as they want, as long as people pay that's great.

I'm actually a paying roam customer btw. I'm definitely going to evaluate it for a few months before deciding if it's worth it or not. I'm just not sure too many others will.

However it looks like the Roam folks are aware of that as well and are actually just using this price point to scale slowly. Bold move but understandable. Bold because it's testing their 7 minutes of fame and betting the flame will continue to burn when they are ready.

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