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you should create an affiliate link (if you can) and let us try to sell it for you, get a cut.
sure what cut do you think is reasonable?
As for all these people bitching about the price of this app: If you think it is worth less than the value that it represents to you then you should go and re-create this app and sell it at a lower price point rather than telling the original developer to lower his price. Be sure to publish your figures. If you find that $16 is less than the value you'd extract from the app then you should probably buy it. Of course…
One can determine objectively whether something is overpriced based on comparisons with competing products.
As for all these people bitching about the price of this app: If you think it is worth less than the value that it represents to you then you should go and re-create this app and sell it at a lower price point rather than telling the original developer to lower his price. Be sure to publish your figures. If you find that $16 is less than the value you'd extract from the app then you should probably buy it. Of course…
That's some kind of logical fallacy... sort of like saying... "if you think that aircraft carrier is overpriced, you should build one and sell it yourself." One can determine objectively whether something is overpriced based on comparisons with competing products.
If making aircraft carriers is not your thing then you shouldn't be telling other people how much to charge for theirs.
The only reason multiple competing products would come in to existence is because of people going the first route.
So there you have it :) Great app, very well done website, but I think ultimately the niche is not just small, it is also very oddly shaped.
(edit) Perhaps repackaging the app and re-aiming it at gamers (as others suggested) would be a thing to try. Though on the other hand many gaming mice come with a hardware button toggling the deceleration.
I would buy this if the price was lower. Perhaps around $7.99, to make it £5 in the UK, more or less. Fantastic idea, fantastic site. Well done.
I'm curious on the poster's behalf; what about $9.99? Would you still buy it right now? Would an extra pound put you off that much?
The price seems incredibly high, sales would probably be better at a lower price point. I would think that you would benefit more from an "impulse purchase" price vis-a-vis a professional utility price.
sales would almost certainly be higher, but revenue may not. it's a less convoluted version of the laffer" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve>laffer curve —the argument for lowering taxes to raise revenue. i think holding off on price changes for at least a week would be, as GHWB might say, 'prudent'. without that data, how can you know where you are on the curve? and how can you know if changes…
no edit button here on HN. or i am blind. though i suppose both are possible.
As for all these people bitching about the price of this app: If you think it is worth less than the value that it represents to you then you should go and re-create this app and sell it at a lower price point rather than telling the original developer to lower his price. Be sure to publish your figures. If you find that $16 is less than the value you'd extract from the app then you should probably buy it. Of course…
Apparently, from talking to a few people, it is a hard thing to do.
I tried to buy USBoverdrive, as it is rather poorly supported, there are long standing repeatable bugs that support often times will not even reply to. It used to be bundled with MacAlly Mice.
I find the driver software for high end mouses to be terrible for your system, and often don't work well. For me, it is not about all the features, the buttons that you can define and macros.
I needed two features, one not as important, the other a must have.
Chording - it would be nice, not many think it can be done well. I tend to think it could be done well and someone should give it a try.
Where all mouse driver software stands still, and I wonder how you are working this out, is in the acceleration/ballistic curve.
I always wanted a way in USBoverdrive to hit a hot key and have a second definition of settings kick in so I could accomplish exactly what your app is doing.
However, without trying your app, I can't be sure it won't do anything more than just slow it down. Slowing it down is not all that there is to making this truly awesome.
Personally, I like to be able to move the mouse about an inch, maybe two, and have it travel the spam of ~24" display. But only if I do so rather fast. If I slow my movement down, I want to span a much lesser distance, with more precision. Current software on the market can't do this. You may get one aspect right, but end up with a mouse that is jittery and the smallest movement it can make is around 10px.
Or, you get it so that it will make a smooth 1px movement, but you have to pick up, place, drag, repeat... the actual mouse to ever get across the screen.
Is there any way to define this in your software? What curve are you using to change this? How in the heck were you able to access and over-ride Apple's built in mouse curve?
The price seems incredibly high, sales would probably be better at a lower price point. I would think that you would benefit more from an "impulse purchase" price vis-a-vis a professional utility price.
sales would almost certainly be higher, but revenue may not. it's a less convoluted version of the laffer" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve>laffer curve —the argument for lowering taxes to raise revenue. i think holding off on price changes for at least a week would be, as GHWB might say, 'prudent'. without that data, how can you know where you are on the curve? and how can you know if changes…
By increasing the number of customers, you increase the number of data points.
Increasing number of data points, if the product is good, will increase both confidence and expected value. (The latter because more people are likely to contact the data.)
The spread of information will be geometric.
The customer base will, at best, build quickly from a low base.
However, the longer the low base period lasts, the greater the risk that some other application steals priority, ending the process.
Lower prices. Market bomb. Raise prices once saturation assures that you build quickly from a medium base. Do this transparently so people don't bad mouth you, biasing future information.