Re:Tell HN: Today I made my first “bucks” on the web
by out_sider on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:53AM
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Thats a great story , thanks :) … honestly I’m almost enjoying more seeing people here sharing their stories and giving encouragement than the small amount I made :).
Can I ask , was it like a lot of money ? Like, enough for a really good vacations :)?
Re:Tell HN: Today I made my first “bucks” on the web
by RajuVarghese on Thursday July 21, 2022 @08:40AM
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It was, for a while. It could have been much much more but I was just a nerdy engineer with no idea of marketing and full of idealism in my head. I asked for $2K for a perpetual license for any number of machines in the enterprise. I could have easily asked for $5K per year. That was a missed opportunity.
Since I am probably one of the older ones here let me tell you about my experience in the 90's. I had written a time synchronization program for Windows NT and put it on the internets for anyone to download and use. Many did. Intriguingly, I got emails from two large Wall Street financial companies saying that they would like to install on their servers/workstations but my policy of "giving it away" would imply that they could NOT use it; I would have to charge something for it, they said. Ok, I told them and set a price which they happily paid. Those were olden times.