Just FYI.. This is built with AngularJS. One of the coolest product built with it too.
Why I am building a product with a tiny market
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Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#12Will you be charging for this?
Yes, I am planning to monetize. I have a few ideas for to do that as it approaches the end of beta, but I'd love to hear any suggestions you have.
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#13Just FYI.. This is built with AngularJS. One of the coolest product built with it too.
I've loved working with angular. My only complaint is that the current docs are somewhat lacking, but it seems that will soon be addressed: https://plus.google.com/112439678898563138768/posts/LfWvcFfq...
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#14Will you be charging for this?
Yes, I am planning to monetize. I have a few ideas for to do that as it approaches the end of beta, but I'd love to hear any suggestions you have.
You've got a really targeted and engaged base of returning users. You could add a text link to a product or service for hackers with an affiliate link, you'd probably get pretty high conversions with this audience.
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#15Will you be charging for this?
Yes, I am planning to monetize. I have a few ideas for to do that as it approaches the end of beta, but I'd love to hear any suggestions you have.
I honestly found it to be wonky and not useful, but I am an experienced programmer who knows how to use regex.
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#16I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help decoding. This is probably close to 99% of programmers.
If his market is "programmers who will pay for a regex debugger", it's probably much smaller than 99% of all programmers (and as a sibling comment pointed out, "programmers" are a much smaller market than many other).
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#17I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help decoding. This is probably close to 99% of programmers.
If his market is "programmers who will pay for a regex debugger", it's probably much smaller than 99% of all programmers (and as a sibling comment pointed out, "programmers" are a much smaller market than many other).
Programmer market is ~12M. I agree that very few will pay though.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#18Will you be charging for this?
Yes, I am planning to monetize. I have a few ideas for to do that as it approaches the end of beta, but I'd love to hear any suggestions you have.
Debuggex is a very well done and useful site. It reminds me of http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/ in terms of utility and slickness of design. Alex Sirota of that site uses a sponsored area that is not obtrusive.
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#19Will you be charging for this?
Yes, I am planning to monetize. I have a few ideas for to do that as it approaches the end of beta, but I'd love to hear any suggestions you have.
It would be interesting to do a SaaS play and charge on a monthly basis, with all updates available to all users. And then allow some (very basic AND time-limited) use by free users, only for trial purposes (not freemium).
Re: Why I am building a product with a tiny market
#20I tend to target niche markets because the odds of me succeeding are much higher. It's much easier to be the best of a small niche and like the article said everything happens on a smaller scale, so less risk. Most the wealthy people I personally know made their money from owning a small niche.
It's easi(er) to own a niche market, but it's also more likely that anyone decently positioned to compete with you can wipe out your profits with small changes to their product or pricing strategy
Not all niche markets are small in terms of revenue/cost either: there are product niches worth millions (or even billions) whose actual feasible customer set barely makes it into double digits. But when the niche is that small in terms of customers you find that despite the lack of threat from competitors it's actually the customer that owns the niche....