{"id":10210,"date":"2014-12-03T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2014-12-03T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T19:40:12","slug":"professional-app-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/professional-app-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional App Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/martiancraft.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/professional-app-pricing\/\">Rob Rhyne<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/martiancraft.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/professional-app-pricing\/\">\n<p>Then today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenpike.com\/2014\/podcast-recording\/\">Allen Pike discussed his company&rsquo;s plans<\/a> for a future product &mdash; <em>MicDrop<\/em>, a podcasting production studio for professionals &mdash; which he was abandoning due to a &ldquo;&#8230;market [that] is just too small to sustain a great app.&rdquo; Allen is preaching the same message I was in my talk: pay attention to the <em>size of your market<\/em> and only build what this <em>market will support financially<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, he mentions several alternative pricing schemes but only discusses, in detail, selling the app for $200. Now, Allen is a smart cookie and an <em>even nicer<\/em> person, so I wanted to present him with a few alternatives that I see for his market and politely make the case there exists a sustainable market for his app. He just needs to be willing to think beyond the mainstream. After all, I know a thing or two about selling an app for $200.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Rhyne: Then today, Allen Pike discussed his company&rsquo;s plans for a future product &mdash; MicDrop, a podcasting production studio for professionals &mdash; which he was abandoning due to a &ldquo;&#8230;market [that] is just too small to sustain a great app.&rdquo; Allen is preaching the same message I was in my talk: pay attention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,101,30,32,112],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-business","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}