JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards

Re:JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards by OJFord on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:34AM (#39777741)

> The average Kicad hobbiest wants this, but doesn’t need it. At least, not in the same way someone with a boss, a program manager, a deadline, and four projects to support does.

Yeah, but they're also never going to pay for it (or not anything close to this price) in a personal capacity.

So give it away free like for current students (would I get away with an alumni^ address I wondered) and generate hype, Youtube content, a pipeline of prospective employees who encourage their employer to adopt it; raving at work about how good it is for their hobby projects and would solve all the problems their having, etc.

^that's the genitive singular, lest you think it erroneously plural ;)

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Re:JITX – The Fastest Way to Design Circuit Boards by Workaccount2 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:08AM (#39778709)

I think it is completely lost on this fresh companies that make commercial production software that the reason their "competitors" can charge $10k/mo is because they are entrenched and established.

If you are new on the scene, give it to .edu for free and charge everyone else $100 for an annual license. If your product is legitimately good, in ten years you will be the entrenched and established one.

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