Re:Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month
by EO-IO on Thursday November 16, 2017 @11:46AM
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Good point, this actually never crossed my mind.
I guess at that time, I was feeling a little behind since SaaS was the hottest thing and I wanted to be part of that.
Re:Bootstrapping My Side Project to $6k/Month
by jajern on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:18PM
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I think a change to the license model to make it subscription based and then the subsequent changes to the software along with a license server would have been just as effective. No need to rewrite everything and figure out the cloud related stuff. Worked for Adobe and Microsoft.
If the only thing you wanted to change was to get a cut of your user's revenue, and you already had a product which worked, and which users found, why did you have to spend one year changing everything e.g. making it a web app, having to find new ways to find users, etc.?
Couldn't you have just altered your pricing model with the existing codebase? Just write an additional new server-side component to handle the billing, keep the existing client software, keep the existing methods to find new users?