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You probably get 80% of the value of all these posts with just two bits of pricing advice:

* Don't charge cost-based prices; what you pay to build something has nothing whatsoever at all to do with your price. All arguments of the form "that's just a (wiki|blog|bug tracker|reddit clone) with a * attached" are themselves a subtle form of cost-based pricing.

* Charge more.

I liked the book though.



Additionally, if you do b2b:

* Charge more.


Also, at rev 2.0:

* Charge more.


In a recent Stack Overflow podcast (73?) Joel said that he would helped the world a lot better if he made a robot that you could ask about software pricing, and it spat out the answer "Raise your price by $200"


It was the This Week In Startups podcast with Matt Mullenweg as a guest.


That's it - too many podcasts to keep straight. Thanks!




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