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A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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post #56

Without 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 think I am one of those. I generally don't like "subscription model" products. I am OK paying whatever price one time to buy something, but having to keep paying recurrently for some service incites locking to me, as the moment I decide I don't want to pay anymore I end up empty handed.

I’m asking out of curiosity, as someone who is thinking about implementing a subscription model, do you not like it even though you know the product you’re using has recurring costs for usage (e.g. charges for API/DB calls), or are you only against subscription models when the cost of usage is minimal to none (e.g. MS Office, Adobe CS)?

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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I commend you for getting people to pay for a color theme - something that people think of as a freebie. I would just think that no one would ever pay for this and not even try. You tried and you are succeeding. There's a lesson in that.

In 2001, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar thought “Let’s sell an equivalent to the dozen of free open-source bugtrackers, but for a price.” Today Atlassian is worth about $60bn, they owned about 75%.

And it's ripe for a lightweight alternative that gets customers that want the fast, basic set of bug tracking features.

Jira is horrific.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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post #31

I checked out the theme itself, and immediately a message showed up saying that it detected my country and offered me a discount code to make sure that the theme is still affordable for my country. It's simple things like this that probably help a side project like this get to where it is, great job!

I can't emphasize enough how important Purchasing Parity Power is. Making it affordable for other countries is crucial.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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Without 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 .

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Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

#69

Without 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 people are buying it then the argument can be made it is both useful and fairly priced to the customer. It’s not like the company has a monopoly on IDE configuration.

Re: A solo journey to $100k in sales

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>> 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 :)

Not everybody earns a US salary, yet we live in a world where all prices are the same. I agree with you, more creators should do that kind of thing.
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