This is beautifully designed, and I think you ought to raise the price. Lots of comments about the potential support headaches are spot-on; price as many of those out as you can.
Check out patio11's online talks for more rational.
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Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#82I can understand the appeal of selling on codecanyon for the existing marketplace you get access to there, but I would consider an independent checkout for the website. Your design and branding are well done and signal high quality, while codecanyon has more of a script/component flea market feel. I think taking someone out of the flow of your site to buy there is a bit jarring and might cause people to reconsider, e…
I second everything said here. (I definitely did a double take when I saw the CodeCanyon link).
I think the thing to note with regard to price points is that I might be willing to pay $45 "just to try it out", but that definitely wouldn't happen at $250. I'd have to first make a sound decision about the software (through the demo, etc).
At any rate, nice work!
Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#83I'm wondering if there are easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on setting it up on my own PC. Can Joe Sixpack set this up without too much grief? I'd like to use this for my own projects, but I'm way out of practice doing this stuff.
It comes with an installation script that's pretty simple to use. You just need your database credentials. I can also install it for you if necessary.
Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#84I can understand the appeal of selling on codecanyon for the existing marketplace you get access to there, but I would consider an independent checkout for the website. Your design and branding are well done and signal high quality, while codecanyon has more of a script/component flea market feel. I think taking someone out of the flow of your site to buy there is a bit jarring and might cause people to reconsider, e…
Plus CodeCanyon takes half of your profit.
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#85I've wanted a nice looking project/client management system that I could host on my server for quite some time. Unfortunately there are very few options that fit this criteria so I created my own. I would love some feedback - good or bad.
Just out of curiosity - your site doesn't seem to mention whether customers would receive product updates or not, or even if there will be any. Is this something you have planned out?
Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#86This is excellent and I love the single price rather than a monthly fee (it's one of the reasons I bought amaon)
Does anyone know of more such 'hidden gems'? I really want a self-hosted website uptime (http status code) checker but I can't find one.
Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#87This looks great. However, the layout is unusable on mobile. Rather than allowing me to use the desktop layout on mobile, all of the page elements are layered on top of each other in a very garbled way. Maybe set a min-width for the page?
Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#88The text in the product images is blurry on my retina macbook.
Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#89I can understand the appeal of selling on codecanyon for the existing marketplace you get access to there, but I would consider an independent checkout for the website. Your design and branding are well done and signal high quality, while codecanyon has more of a script/component flea market feel. I think taking someone out of the flow of your site to buy there is a bit jarring and might cause people to reconsider, e…
I also second selling it for $250 and using something other than Codecanyon. I'd recommend using Fastspring (customer, no other affiliation) since it has no monthly fee and takes a lot smaller cut than Codecanyon.
Re: Show HN: I built a self-hosted Basecamp alternative. Try the demo
#90I can understand the appeal of selling on codecanyon for the existing marketplace you get access to there, but I would consider an independent checkout for the website. Your design and branding are well done and signal high quality, while codecanyon has more of a script/component flea market feel. I think taking someone out of the flow of your site to buy there is a bit jarring and might cause people to reconsider, e…
I second everything said here. (I definitely did a double take when I saw the CodeCanyon link). I think the thing to note with regard to price points is that I might be willing to pay $45 "just to try it out", but that definitely wouldn't happen at $250. I'd have to first make a sound decision about the software (through the demo, etc). At any rate, nice work!
> I'd have to first make a sound decision about the software (through the demo, etc).
Which should be easy... Just offer a hosted version.