Priced at $5 and nobody trusts it
A practical fix and a copyable AI coding prompt. Replace bracketed placeholders with your project details.
1. Check the problem
Price is a signal: $5 reads as a hobby, $19-29 reads as a real product, B2B should start at $49. Test by raising new-signup price 3-4x while grandfathering existing customers, most indie devs price too low.
2. Use the prompt
I price [product] at $[X] and it reads as a hobby project. Act as a pricing advisor: recommend a price that signals a real product for my category ([B2B/consumer]), explain the reasoning, and give me a test plan, new signups at the higher price with existing customers grandfathered, plus the metric that tells me it worked.3. Verify the fix
Review the proposed diff, run the relevant checks and exercise the original failing flow before merging.
Continue in the related workflow chapter.