Let's talk about defining a price for one-time payment products.

When I saw that @gumroad supported Pay What You Want, I had no doubt that this would be the pricing strategy for CSS Scan.

I'd always recommend PWYW with a minimum price instead of a fixed pricing. Why? [...]

It turns out that some people just value your product more than others!

👉 With PWYW you're not only receiving the value that you expected but also donations for a good work.

Plus, with a minimum price, you'll at least earn the same amount you were supposed to if it was fixed.
💡 You only need 1 person paying more to already make it worth.

It's not easy, though. CSS Scan started at $1.99. It was selling like water, so I raised the price to $2.99, and after that, $3.99 - in about 3 days.

❗️ What I didn't expect was that 30% of people were paying more!
I realized that the price could still be higher by looking at the average of the sales prices. E.g., when it was $3.99, the average price of it was actually at $4.69!

I left it at $3.99 for 3 months. Based on the $4.69 average, 1 week ago I decided to raise it again to $4.99.
🧐 Now let's look at the data!

📈 Previous conversion rate: 6,5%
📉 Current conversion rate: 5,7%

It received 1403 views this month. Doing math:
(1403*6,5%)*3,99 = $363
(1403*5,7%)*4,99 = $399

🤔 So there's actually a growth in revenue
⬆️ $363 to $399
🎉 +$36 or +10% per month
About 30% of the people pay more for CSS Scan.

😀 76 paid more than $5
😮 63 of it paid $10 or more
😱 5 of it paid more than 5x the price ($20)

👼 And there's 1 person that was a true angel and paid $25 when the price was at $3.99 - that's ~630% more!
Based on the pricing at $3.99, the countries that PWYW worked more, by average price paid were:

1. 🇿🇦 South Africa: $5,09
2. 🇦🇺 Australia: $5,05
3. 🇺🇸 USA: $4.91
4. 🇫🇷 France: $4,52
5. 🇩🇪 Germany: $4.51
6. 🇮🇪 Ireland and 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: $4,49
Nowadays, it's $4.99 and the average price is at $5.69 so there may be still space for raising it, but anyway I think it has achieved a fair price. What do you think? Should I raise it? Let me know by replying this thread!
🙌 Lessons learned:

- PWYW can be a great pricing strategy for one-time payments

- A lot of people are willing to pay more for your work

- I think initially underpricing could work more than overpricing it bc lowering the price after people already paid more it's unfair IMHO
- If you're using PWYW, take a look at the averages to know if you can still raise the price 👀

💫 That's all for today!

🇧🇷 I'm a Brazilian indie maker and If you want to stay updated on my journey, follow me here, I'll launch a new product next month: Beachguide! 🚀
👉 CSS Scan is a browser extension to instantly check or copy the computed CSS of any particular element you hover over.

🙋‍♀️ More than 1288 developers are already using it!

🌟 Check it at:
https://t.co/qmNzkkHSIk

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From today, we will memorize the names of 27 Nakshatras in Vedic Jyotish to never forget in life.

I will write 4 names. Repeat them in SAME sequence twice in morning, noon, evening. Each day, revise new names + recall all previously learnt names.

Pls RT if you are in.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

1. Ashwini - अश्विनी

2. Bharani - भरणी

3. Krittika - कृत्तिका

4. Rohini - रोहिणी

Ashwini - अश्विनी is the FIRST Nakshatra.

Repeat these names TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon and evening. Like this tweet if you have revised 8 times as told.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

5. Mrigashira - मृगशिरा

6. Ardra - आर्द्रा

7. Punarvasu - पुनर्वसु

8. Pushya - पुष्य

First recall previously learnt Nakshatras twice. Then recite these TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet only after doing so.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

9. Ashlesha - अश्लेषा

10. Magha - मघा

11. Purvaphalguni - पूर्वाफाल्गुनी

12. Uttaraphalguni - उत्तराफाल्गुनी

Purva means that comes before (P se Purva, P se pehele), and Uttara comes later.

Read next tweet too.

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Purva, Uttara prefixes come in other Nakshatras too. Purva= pehele wala. Remember.

First recall previously learnt 8 Nakshatras twice. Then recite those in Tweet #4 TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet if you have read Tweets #4 & 5, both.