Founder Playbook
Pricing
“99 cents a month geez 99 cents a month six bucks a year... Just double it $2 a month that's still really low and nobody's gonna get mad... keep doubling it until your haters folder gets too big and then take it back a notch”
Just double your price — nobody gets mad
Sebastian had charged $0.99/month or $6/year for HabitKit and kept deferring a price increase 'until after the next feature.' The RevenueCat CEO's advice: just double it — $2/month is still low, and nobody gets mad. The heuristic for iterative pricing: raise the price, measure the tone of reviews, and only back off when pushback becomes severe. Most indie apps are underpriced by a factor of 2–5x before that threshold.
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Sebastian Röhl
HabitKit$110K revenue in the first 5 months of 2024 as a solo developer with no paid marketing — after earning $51K across all of 2023.
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