| ▲ | tmpz22 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reasonable question but I think people are just burnt out by the Silicon Valley pricing model that has proliferated everywhere. * Most consumers now swallow a live service model and associated costs that they don’t want * Most consumers now swallow the costs of west coast tech culture: cost of living, esoteric architectural choices, fad driven development, and hobby driven development * Most owners of software businesses expect to get rich in a relatively short time frame * Software is absurdly high margin if built effectively and distributed at (effectively) zero cost. Where do consumers ever see these savings when cost outpaces inflation? * Record profits and layoffs being recorded by the broader industry And specifically to the point of productivity tools inherently justifying nearly any price, this argument is fundamentally flawed because productivity is only measurable if it can be strictly defined and good luck with that one. Salespeople have made billions hawking that fallacy and people eat it up because American work culture fetishizes productivity. This isn’t a critique of OP I really went down a rabbit hole exploring and appreciating this project and hope it succeeds. The underlying business model of software is dystopian when compared to what it could be if everyone didn’t bind happiness to being cartoonishly wealthy in Menlo Park. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | 999900000999 4 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This in particular looks like a solo project that probably took around a year. Say OP sells 1000 subscriptions. That's 20 thousand dollars a month. They sell 10k subs, 200k a month. Or the project fails, and as a closed source tool I can't fork and fix issues. The only options are it becoming a multi million dollar company or abandonware. I'd be open to it if it was 100$ with one year of free updates. But even then, I think Visual Studio( which is free for hobbyist) is the only closed source IDE I use. Everything else is open source and free. Maybe I've been traumatized by Unity 3D, but I don't want to use a bunch of closed source tools. What if this becomes my primary dev tool, and OP decides to update the pricing. If you're justification for a $20 subscription is that oh you're probably making six figures and this is making your job easier, then what's to stop you from pricing it at $50 a month. Why not a hundred . Open AI has already started this bizarre slide into higher pricing tiers, I can use Deepseek or LLma3 for free, but if I'm using the most up-to-date chat GPT, I'll run into a rate limit and be told it's time to upgrade to a $200 a month service?! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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