How do you find your subscription price point?
Hi all, I’m super new here!
I recently made (still finishing, it’s getting there) a web app that helps with sprint planning and hooks into Jira, Gitlab, and Github apis to fetch issues and present them in a multiplayer issue weighing interface.
Where I’m really struggling is figuring out how much it would potentially be worth to companies. How does one go about researching how to find a SaaS price point? This will be my first non FOSS project so I’m new to the marketing side
Hi Andrew, I would love to try it out! I'm using Jira and it's always becoming a mess. I also have some ideas for a backlog grooming app, but no time to build it. Maybe I can share some of the feedback of what I'm looking for.
Regarding pricing point, I also would research what others are charging, but something I often see is like $5/month on the lower side and $25/month on the higher side. I would rather start high and give discounts if necessary.
Thanks for your comment! You can definitely check out the MVP if you’d like, I welcome any ideas or constructive feedback! www.devpoker.app this is just the MVP, there are bugs, and it isn’t fully fleshed out yet. As such, I only have gitlab integrations working for now, with jira coming soon (as long as I keep finding time to work on it, haha)
Ok I see. Planning poker. I actually did this with a free tool earlier when I worked with a small dev team. It was quite good. It needs to proved a bit more value though since you can do this easily without specialized software. Hmmm but what is the question. My problem - as a developer of an app - is that I get sooo much feedback that I accumulated easily over 800 user stories and bugs. Now keeping an overview and prioritizing things gets really hard. I was thinking about a solution in this area. So it becomes easier to have an over view and editing the user stories.
My personal approach was:
After I considered these, then I focused on finding a price that ensured I'd hit a break-even with just a handful of customers and start to make a profit at 10+.
Hey Andrew,
I think there is no short answer to this question, but I have a great article for you that could help to find a starting point: https://www.intercom.com/blog/picking-your-pricing-model/