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7 pointsJasber11 comments

2.99 doesn't hit my sweet-spot. And I realised that the price has stopped me from investigating the app further, to see what premium features it may offer.

What would be your sweet spot for an app like this?

The sweet-spot to get me to check the app specs would be 0.59. Having now watched the video, I'd assume that you would get a referral fee from GoDaddy, at which point I'd want the app for 0.00.

agree. It's better to build goodwill and retain me as a customer with the $0 app and you collect the referral fee, than to skim off both ends.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I've thought a lot about this and have some experience building domain tools. The truth is nobody ever purchases domains through the app.

You need massive volume (like advertising) to make this model work--it's just not there.

Making the app paid lets me keep the service running for the few people who think it's valuable enough to pay for.

This is a better solution I think than shutting down the service all together.

I'm definitely considering an ad-supported or free version, but wanted to start with a paid version first.

This is my first mobile app so I'd love some feedback.

Nice presentation on your website. How are you checking name availability? Registrars have purchased domains queried for in the past that weren't immediately purchased by the querier. You may wish to query the TLD registries directly to prevent that sort of behavior.

Yea that's currently what we do, we don't go through any specific registrar right now.

I may need to adjust this in the future, so that's something good to keep in mind, thanks.

You should highlight this fact in your marketing. I'm buying the app now primarily for this feature.

Really?

the autoplayed presentation is awesome

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