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Are you generating the configs for all these apps? Having a method of turning a universal theme spec into specific app configs might be worth more than the theme itself.
From reading the name of the project I wouldn‘t have guessed it‘s a color scheme for a lot of apps. I wouldn‘t even thought of that as a viable market. Congratulations to you. This is amazing. I think the most valuable lesson here is, that there is a market for a lot more things than we would have thought a few years/decades back. Kind of how Spotify enable niche band to have successes outside the mainstream, just by…
Congratulations 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 te…
Congrats!! This is a very pleasant news in these difficult times especially. Wish you lots of good luck. Hope you inspire lot of folks on HN here.
Congrats. Instead of thinking in the line of "Wow $99 for a config file with colors and fonts". My reaction is: So there is a premium market for this things. Good.
I 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCTjxk33juo
Edit: I misunderstood; see child comment. Original: Clarification: that's $100K in a _month_, not annual. (Very impressive, I might add!)
Are you generating the configs for all these apps? Having a method of turning a universal theme spec into specific app configs might be worth more than the theme itself.
I got things set up to where I can run: set-theme gruvbox or set-theme one and it'll switch color themes in half a dozen apps. It also supports an optional --toggle-bg flag to flip between dark and light mode if the theme supports it.
Ended up being a fairly small zero dependency Python script that I put together in a few hours. I made a video about it here https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-terminal-tmux-vim-and-fzf-t... and the script is in my dotfiles at https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/blob/master/.local/bin/se....
But it wouldn't be hard to make the script more general purpose and put the configuration in a YAML file instead of in the script. Then add attributes for each supported app along with how those values would get replaced. If the app supports plain text config files it could realistically be done.
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.
Wow, I created a color theme for VSCode some years ago (which actually got some attention by some people and there was one guy even adapting it to Google Chrome dev console) and not even one second I thought that this kind of stuff could be monetised in any way. Well done.