Re:Show HN: Recompyle – A JavaScript Developer Friendly Cons...
by no_wizard on Thursday December 07, 2023 @12:08PM
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there are different classes of this.
I think the fact there are already an abundant amount of free and good tools for debugging JavaScript - many of which you don't even need extensions to use, its simply knowing how to get around the builtin debugger and inspector - make this class of product harder to make money off of.
Something like say a database is much harder to replicate and has a very high barrier to entry by comparison and have more verticals for actually acquiring and charging customers of the software
Neither of these are judgements for or against a thing, simply wanted to highlight the realities.
What I will say is this makes the barrier of entry for something like this very high before someone is willing to open their wallet.
I think the fact there are already an abundant amount of free and good tools for debugging JavaScript - many of which you don't even need extensions to use, its simply knowing how to get around the builtin debugger and inspector - make this class of product harder to make money off of.
Something like say a database is much harder to replicate and has a very high barrier to entry by comparison and have more verticals for actually acquiring and charging customers of the software
Neither of these are judgements for or against a thing, simply wanted to highlight the realities.
What I will say is this makes the barrier of entry for something like this very high before someone is willing to open their wallet.