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Re: Without this, your product is doomed to fail

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Post by duiker101 » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 10:56 AM UTC

neya wrote: post #6

I'm just a curious user - How can a start-up be profitable if it charges only a one-off fee, and that too only something as low as $50-$60? I think it's a very risky business model. In my opinion, it's a terrible trade off and you're probably going to bite more than you can chew. Let me explain. For example, let's consider two apps A and B. A charges a $50 one-off fee and B charges a $20 recurring fee. Sure, A will g…

But haven't businesses worked like that for like...forever? If you buy a TV(for example, even a cheap one) you don't buy it and pay recurring fees but it will still come with insurance.

Re: Without this, your product is doomed to fail

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Post by Poyeyo » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 2:20 PM UTC

neya wrote: post #6

I'm just a curious user - How can a start-up be profitable if it charges only a one-off fee, and that too only something as low as $50-$60? I think it's a very risky business model. In my opinion, it's a terrible trade off and you're probably going to bite more than you can chew. Let me explain. For example, let's consider two apps A and B. A charges a $50 one-off fee and B charges a $20 recurring fee. Sure, A will g…

That's the reason we have Sublime Text 3.

Re: Without this, your product is doomed to fail

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Post by benhomie » Sun, Apr 21, 2013, 6:11 PM UTC

l-p wrote: post #3

I hope you fixed your security issues. ( http://redd.it/14o4ki )

This has been fixed. A CA certificate bundle is now included in the build for curl to check against when connecting to SSL enabled URLs, so there'll be no more certificate errors even if a default CA certificate bundle isn't available on the server. Also, user inputs are sanitized, the code posted there are from an older version of Sendy. Thanks for the heads up.