Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for?

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Post by Ralz » Wed, Nov 28, 2012, 11:25 PM UTC

tarekayna wrote: post #9

Ralz wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's really interesting to know, your app looks awesome. May I ask how long that took you and did you make this in JS? I'll try raising the price of mine for a week and see what the results are thanks. Link to Blu Graing Calc: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/blu-graphing-calc...

Thanks :). This was around 7 months of mornings and weekends while I had a full-time job. (I quit a month ago to start my own thing). I built this with JS/HTML/CSS but the MathEngine component I built using C# (.winmd) and called into it from the Javascript. If you have any specific questions about how different parts are implemented, let me know :).

Same I left MSFT in March to do my own thing! Not just this Windows App tho, it was just a side project while I failed at a startup earlier this year.

I was just thinking that with the state of the how APIs were last year this would have been very tough to do, so I was wondering if you went the JS route since it was in better shape than XAML.

Re: Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for?

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Post by OafTobark » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 1:01 AM UTC

Ralz wrote: post #8

OafTobark wrote: post #2

I paid $15 for an iOS version (1Password Pro) so I'd imagine you can try at a higher price point. Worse case scenario, you can drop prices later. Much harder to keep increasing prices if there are a lot of users that take notice later. Try something like $4.99 and see how that does. If traffic falls, but overall profit is up, thats still okay. You got to do a bit of testing to see what will work best.

Sheesh $15 thats pretty steep for a password manager, then again "Keeper" is a top grossing app on IOS and makes $9.99/year off of its customers. Thanks for the advice I'm going to try the $4.99 price point.

Yeah it is. Its universal for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch but still pretty expensive. The I think the main reason being it syncs with the Desktop version (paid separately). I still think its overpriced (yet I paid anyway).

Re: Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for?

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Post by Ralz » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 4:08 AM UTC

pkamb wrote: post #10

I increased the price of two of my Mac App Store apps: Reddit Notifier https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?... $1.99 -> $2.99 EdgeCase https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edgecase/id513826860?mt=12 $4.99 -> $7.99 Sales numbers for both have remained close enough to constant so these price increases have lead to a nice little bump in revenue. I would say to aim for the high end of the price "range"…

I changed it to $9.99, I feel like I'm being a bit greedy but I'll give it a week to see what the results are!

Re: Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for?

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Post by tarekayna » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 6:57 AM UTC

Ralz wrote: post #11

tarekayna wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks :). This was around 7 months of mornings and weekends while I had a full-time job. (I quit a month ago to start my own thing). I built this with JS/HTML/CSS but the MathEngine component I built using C# (.winmd) and called into it from the Javascript. If you have any specific questions about how different parts are implemented, let me know :).

Same I left MSFT in March to do my own thing! Not just this Windows App tho, it was just a side project while I failed at a startup earlier this year. I was just thinking that with the state of the how APIs were last year this would have been very tough to do, so I was wondering if you went the JS route since it was in better shape than XAML.

Nice, I used to work for MS too :).

I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much.

The JS platform was pretty stable from the initial public release, I guess that's because it is built on top of IE which has been around much before Win8 came along.

Re: Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for?

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Post by badassdon » Thu, Nov 29, 2012, 2:47 PM UTC

Ralz wrote: post #13

pkamb wrote: post #10

I increased the price of two of my Mac App Store apps: Reddit Notifier https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?... $1.99 -> $2.99 EdgeCase https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edgecase/id513826860?mt=12 $4.99 -> $7.99 Sales numbers for both have remained close enough to constant so these price increases have lead to a nice little bump in revenue. I would say to aim for the high end of the price "range"…

I changed it to $9.99, I feel like I'm being a bit greedy but I'll give it a week to see what the results are!

I agree with raising the price up a bit for this app - a security app that sells for a lower price gives off the impression that it's not very secure (imho)