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Discussion on: I'm Charity Majors, Ask Me Anything! [FINISHED]

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Mac Siri

How do you price a software product/service?

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Charity Majors

Start by bleeding out your eyes and tearing out your hair for six months or so.

It's incredibly hard.

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Charity Majors

More seriously, ok, I guess I would say:

  • know who your customer is. you are either going to be leaving shit tons of money on the table, or shit tons of easy customers on the table. pick one.
  • know what it costs you (don't forget the personnel costs) and bend towards sustainable.
  • align your incentives. things that hurt your platform should be expensive, things that are easy should be cheap. engineering cycles are always the hardest part.
  • you can't get every customer. be willing to walk away for the right reasons.
  • i still don't know how to do this thing btw
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Mac Siri

Thank you for such a thorough answer! Boy this is tough 😥.

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Charity Majors

so tough <3