Ask HN: Recommended resources for pricing digital products/services?

44 points·TheStagHeart··8 comments

What to price the things I make feels too much like guesswork to me. I would love to know any recommended advice for how to price digital products and services. How did you come up with the price for your project?

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Take a look at this video of Michael Dearing on pricing.

https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/harrison-metals-micha...

The website is really weird: there's no obvious way to play the video. Clicking on a word or paragraph plays the video at that place. So you can click on the letter "I" in the first sentence "I was just telling the" of the first paragraph.

I suppose you can directly access the video here: https://d3aeja1uqhkije.cloudfront.net/2013-07-16-michael-dea...

Also from patio11: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/saas_pric...

Huge +1 to patio11. This one is so good: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/business-of-saas

The book Monetizing Innovation is a book all about pricing [0]. It's a great read. I'd also recommend this talk by Rahul Vohra, founder of Superhuman, who talks about pricing with regards to product market fit [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Desig...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhDj_C4Qzhk

Some resources I've collected about pricing:

https://cranberryblog.substack.com/p/a-simple-argument-for-i...

https://zimtik.com/en/posts/lessons-learned-on-saas-pricing

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/payback-period

https://www.derrickreimer.com/essays/2019/07/01/dont-insult-...

https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/restaurant-prices/

http://justinmares.com/why-real-businesses-dont-charge-5mont...

https://adilaijaz.medium.com/6-questions-to-ask-before-adopt...

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/saas-pricing-strategy

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/29/subscription-based-pricing...