>> I believe in Purchasing Parity Power, and I want to make this affordable.
Saw this on clicking the pro link. Really appreciate the gesture. Wish more products/creators thought this way :)
A solo journey to $100k in sales
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Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#42Without knocking the creators achievement, I find it curious how devs will rage and cry murder when LastPass wants a few bucks for a hosted product but don’t bat an eye for shelling out $99 for what is, when you come down to it, a config file for your IDE .
$99 for a great config file is buying time. A good config can take years to hone. Easily adds up to 50 hours over 10 years. How much are your 50 hours worth? What about cutting that 10 year lead time down to 1h? LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks. And their UX is pretty bad. And switching away is an annoying chore. You feel trapped and extorted into paying. I configured my own editor…
> LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks
I feel like this gets missed a lot when questions about price/value come up.
Just because something's useful doesn't mean you want to buy it, and things you don't want to buy, but need, are likely to be thought of more harshly when it comes to price.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#43Hello HN friends! Today is a special day. My solo side project has hit 100K in sales, which is absolutely insane. When I started this thing, I never thought this would happen. Monetizing an open-source project is very difficult, so I decided to share my personal journey and lessons learned. This is a visual timeline showing all the lessons learned from $0 to $100k in one year. I hope this can be helpful and inspire y…
Congrats dude! I'm impressed by this project and that you got people to pay for it. Any why shouldn't they? It takes time and skills to do design work like this.
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#44I watched Brandon Li's video yesterday on how to turn a shot into a scene. I feel like it strangely applies to marketing for solo developers. You packaged your disperse config files into a cohesive product, with a unified look, and your website even has an emotional response to it.
Here's his insight.
How to turn a SHOT into a SCENE - Travel Video Storytelling
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#45Without knocking the creators achievement, I find it curious how devs will rage and cry murder when LastPass wants a few bucks for a hosted product but don’t bat an eye for shelling out $99 for what is, when you come down to it, a config file for your IDE .
$99 for a great config file is buying time. A good config can take years to hone. Easily adds up to 50 hours over 10 years. How much are your 50 hours worth? What about cutting that 10 year lead time down to 1h? LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks. And their UX is pretty bad. And switching away is an annoying chore. You feel trapped and extorted into paying. I configured my own editor…
I use BitWarden because the world sucks.
I use LastPass because my employer compels me to.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#46Without knocking the creators achievement, I find it curious how devs will rage and cry murder when LastPass wants a few bucks for a hosted product but don’t bat an eye for shelling out $99 for what is, when you come down to it, a config file for your IDE .
I have nothing neither against LastPass, nor for Dracula, and I've never used either so I might be wrong, but here are a few differences that IMO matter a lot: - Dracula is FOSS. LastPass has some FOSS projects, but the key ones aren't. - Dracula is a one-time-purchase, LastPass follows the terrible trend where everything must be subscription based. - You can use Dracula when the server is down. You can't use LastPas…
> - Dracula is a one-time-purchase, LastPass follows the terrible trend where everything must be subscription based.
Let's be fair here: LastPass needs to finance storage servers, network infrastructure, security engineers etc.. Dracula needs a CDN for downloads. Of course this is a bit simplified (the author needs the editors and a payment processer, for example), but it's a lot easier to work with a one-time fee when nearly all of your cost is up front and you have basically no running costs.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#47If you build it, they will come.
This is exactly the opposite of reality.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#48Without knocking the creators achievement, I find it curious how devs will rage and cry murder when LastPass wants a few bucks for a hosted product but don’t bat an eye for shelling out $99 for what is, when you come down to it, a config file for your IDE .
$99 for a great config file is buying time. A good config can take years to hone. Easily adds up to 50 hours over 10 years. How much are your 50 hours worth? What about cutting that 10 year lead time down to 1h? LastPass on the other hand is a tool you use because the world sucks. And their UX is pretty bad. And switching away is an annoying chore. You feel trapped and extorted into paying. I configured my own editor…
Switching away was actually very easy. You can get a CSV with all of your information in a few clicks.
Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales
#49Without knocking the creators achievement, I find it curious how devs will rage and cry murder when LastPass wants a few bucks for a hosted product but don’t bat an eye for shelling out $99 for what is, when you come down to it, a config file for your IDE .
If that doesn't tell you how bad LastPass is, I guess there's nothing to learn here.
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#50Congratulations on your achievements. Very nice idea and good website.
Having said that I noticed on your demo that the difference between selected text and non selected one it negligible. It is very unergonomic I would say. Funny thing I did notice the same trend on practically all dark schemes from other offerings. Themes for VS code for example. Curious why is that as the inability to clearly emphasize selected text would make my get rid of said theme immediately.