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How much do you think is my fair price? I will leave it here because it's weird to higgle on it. If I'm going to be "on call" I expect to get paid and I don't think this is greedy or unreasonable.


the going rate for a freelancer is $100/hr in my part of the world, but you can check your going rate.

You can calculate your expected baseline yearly sales from this, based on how many hours you expect to work bugfixing and improving things on average per year.

You can timebox the work- having a half-dozen services like this is exactly how Panic Inc. came to mass prominence.

Everything depends on the actual amount of time you have to spend on the app, nobody is asking for minimum wage work, that's totally not fair; but perhaps expecting this single project to support you full time is unlikely.

The upshot is that if you're more successful than your baseline, that's "profit", and it's unbounded.


I think you should just release an app that does just that at your rates.



Someone should put it on the AppStore or compile and release it for immediate download instead of demanding I give away my work and time for free. Everyone wins.


Nobody is demanding this.

I’d recommend stepping away for a while and coming back with fresh eyes. Imagine that we’re all being honest and not trying to bring you down- because genuinely we’re not.

There have been a lot of comments about the pricing, specifically the subscription, so its best to see what you can take from that. But that cant happen if you’re emotional about it because you will naturally be defensive and your mind wont let the constructive elements in.


Fair enough, maybe your are right and I get worked up on the backslash for subscriptions(though I totally expected that).


I do not think anyone is demanding anything of you. They are offering feedback on your (IMHO) suboptimal pricing strategy. You have every right to disagree, ignore them, etc. But if you really feel that someone is demanding something, perhaps you should take a moment and cool off. I do not read any messages here as a demand on you at all.


Fair enough. But I won't be ever doing one time payment or freeware. If I abandone the app I will put open source it.


Who says I haven't?


Good for you then.




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