Show HN: Taurus.io - Create a product tour for your web app in 15 minutes

Post by sgdesign » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:14 AM UTC

ebzlo wrote: post #11

therealarmen wrote: post #8

Cool product! Congrats on launching. I can think of several companies off the top of my head who should implement this yesterday. But I have to take issue with the price point. $3 a month? If you're doing it for fun, make it free. Otherwise, the price should be 10x if not 100x your current rate. Trust me, if someone is going to go through the effort of setting up your product, they'll be willing to pay more than $3 a…

Thanks! The problem with being 10x or 100x the current rate is that we can't actually justify that cost for the value we provide. When we set the price point, we basically asked ourselves how much we'd actually pay for the same thing.

Post by ebzlo » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:22 AM UTC

mikhaill wrote: post #22

sgdesign wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of asking yourselves "what's the minimum amount someone would pay?", you should be asking "what's the maximum?". I'm really cheap, and even I find $3/month ridiculous. It should at least be $9/month, and you should find a way to have multiple plans (say, $9, $29, $59).

I'll second @therealarmen point and agree with @sgdesign. You priced the product based on real value and not perceived value, which represents how much customers feel a product is worth and is willing to pay for it. If I have a web app, I sit and suffer as I look at my low conversion rate, low engagement and high amount of tickets coming to the support desk with annoyingly simple questions. All these items take up my…

Post by runako » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 4:01 AM UTC

ebzlo wrote: post #11

therealarmen wrote: post #8

Cool product! Congrats on launching. I can think of several companies off the top of my head who should implement this yesterday. But I have to take issue with the price point. $3 a month? If you're doing it for fun, make it free. Otherwise, the price should be 10x if not 100x your current rate. Trust me, if someone is going to go through the effort of setting up your product, they'll be willing to pay more than $3 a…

Thanks! The problem with being 10x or 100x the current rate is that we can't actually justify that cost for the value we provide. When we set the price point, we basically asked ourselves how much we'd actually pay for the same thing.

Post by ebzlo » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 4:06 AM UTC

dantiberian wrote: post #26

ebzlo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! The problem with being 10x or 100x the current rate is that we can't actually justify that cost for the value we provide. When we set the price point, we basically asked ourselves how much we'd actually pay for the same thing.

In this video https://training.kalzumeus.com patio11 describes how building product tour's can increase sales by 20-100%. Taurus.io is definitely worth more than $3/month and could be priced far higher.

Post by hsuresh » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 4:15 AM UTC

ebzlo wrote: post #5

vineet wrote: post #4

Looks cool. I think I would find it more useful if I could see a demo (not of the authoring, but of the result).

Thanks! If you create some tooltips on the page and refresh the page, you kind of get a feel of what it would be like for a visitor (though "Hide" won't permanently hide the tooltips in that state).