What should be the pricing strategy of my Startup

Hey there,

I launched my startup a few weeks ago. It provides mentorship services to the mentees, in which multiple mentors can join. The startup is called Mently.

1st Concern

Initially, I set up the pricing strategy like this: the mentor will set up the pricing themselves, and I will increase it by 20% to take the total amount from the mentee.

Other mentorship platform like Intro, Topmate, etc, provides an individual pricing model, but I wanted to make it simple and shift from the individual pricing to the subscription model so that the user can easily choose, and services will be packaged in 2 or 3 subscriptions

I am saying this because I am thinking about the user who will pay and not about the mentors who will receive.

2nd Concern

At first, I am picking the tech mentors because my community is based on it, but from years of experience, I noticed that many techies want the free stuff because they're broke and want to get a job. For this reason, many free coding channels, like Freecodecamp, are providing so much that I don't know whether these techies will take my services.

Again, in the individual pricing model, many mentors set up their pricing up 200 USD also which is so high for these tech students.

Should I target other niches for mently like lonely people or business people, etc, who want to learn something, and they need a mentor.

3rd Concern

A friend of mine also said that I should focus on the B2B model because the margin is high there. He was talking about the context of tech students, but Mently can also be broadened to other niches if the tech niche didn't work.

I need your advice regarding these concerns

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