Re:Ask HN: How to monetize from my PHP side projects?
by aruggirello on Monday August 04, 2014 @05:20PM
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I was thinking along this line. PHPippo is of course free; I could have a page prompting visitors to 'submit your PHP script to get it instantly micro-optimized' or 'version checked'. But then I would basically charge users for something they could do themselves for free, so I would add a 'manual review' process to provide some added value. Even then, _would you trust a website you don't know with your sources?_ I don't know.
Perhaps there is room for 5- or 6-, as preprocessor directives are a powerful, yet tricky language, and might take some time to master.
I could try to sell a Wordpress/Drupal/Magento/etc. plugin based on the anti-scraping class - in fact there are a couple Wordpress 'security' plugins available for sale which are quite similar, though none of them addressing bad user agents/scraping bots.
Re:Ask HN: How to monetize from my PHP side projects?
by chrisjack on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @09:53AM
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I haven't though about plugins but that seem a great way to package some of your project. You can always have a free and paid tier with the free tier having limited fonctionalities.
Perhaps there is room for 5- or 6-, as preprocessor directives are a powerful, yet tricky language, and might take some time to master.
I could try to sell a Wordpress/Drupal/Magento/etc. plugin based on the anti-scraping class - in fact there are a couple Wordpress 'security' plugins available for sale which are quite similar, though none of them addressing bad user agents/scraping bots.