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"Increase price" was the #1 feedback from alpha users

Hello everybody,

I recently launched pre-orders to https://uibun.dev and I got many early-access users and purchases.

Last month I spoke to multiple users that actively use UiBun and the top feedback from them was that the product was highly underpriced.

I was skeptical about increasing prices while the product was still not fully launched, but I decided to give it a shot by increasing the price to €149 for a week. And to my surprise, I started getting emails from multiple users requesting to provide access to the product at the previous price.

As a result of increasing prices, I now have more interest from the users and also generated new leads. So, I decided to revert the product back to the original price (€49) until Jan 10.

It was a good experiment that led me to understand the users better. I'll keep you posted about my future experiments and strategies with the product.

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    Interesting! I can share the same learning we had recently with the mentalport app

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      Great! Looking forward to it..

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    Most of the big companies are using these kind of strategies which called neuromarketing. I think, it makes something related with FOMO feels in our brains, when the prices increases. It may be useful to investigate further practical applications of this subject.

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      Yes, it's very interesting how people react to price increase. It creates a sense of missing out on offers which creates a sense of urgency to buy the product.

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    Recognising user feedback and making necessary adjustments shows flexibility Looking forward to hearing about your future endeavors.

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      Thank you so much <3 I'll keep posting updates

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    I increased the price for my design subscription agency https://www.pentaclay.com without getting a single client.

    After the increase, I got 3 clients.

    Don't get me wrong, price increase didn't get me clients, I felt super motivated after the increase and used write methods of marketing.

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      Oh yeah, being able to collect more money helps reach revenue goals faster, and ultimately help the product be built better

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    Funny how the psychology of price increases works. Good call!

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      Oh yes!! Gotta see how I could get some eyes for my FOMO experiments

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    Sounds like you found yourself in quite a tricky situation. Hopefully you managed to come out of it on top!

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      Yes, ended up creating a UI for creating FOMO and ended up getting 2 more orders. Wrote about it here: https://indiehackers.com/post/fomo-design-helped-me-get-2-new-pre-orders-within-2-hours-5cdc4bde09

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