I also make another app which is a kind of clipboard, called
Container, where users are free to pay whatever they like through
paypal, or $15 through kagi, no bug screens, no limits. It is in my
own opinion pretty cool app especially if you are a programmer. I
can drag code snippets, functions and such over to the app, and then
drag drop back where I want it, type my own info, drag / drop
pictures and such, and of course organize this and search and more.
This s a kinda of donation ware.
Only limit is your own imagination. This app has in a way become
quite popular and exceeded my own download estimates over 2000 %,
with many thousand downloads.
To date, I have had two feature requests which I have added and will
ship later, one request to be included on a shareware CD for a Mac
magazine, but that is it. Not $1 donation, nothing.
So this is pretty failed experiment, and I will most likely change
the way it works, perhaps only add a few random nag screens or just
make the app totally free. It is really helpful for example
answering trouble tickets in my work since most answers are similar
to one another (system administrator) :)
The app is as I found after I made it, similar to iClip, but doesn't
look as nice :)
http://www.studlar.net/en/ (there is a picture of it on the main
page).
So most likely, I will just swallow this, and continue even though
there is a crack for my other app. Perhaps just add some more checks
that run randomly, and look at this crack as an acknowledgment of my
work, someone liked my work enough to spend a few minutes to
crack :) Even though I must admit that this experience is a bit
saddening, even though like I am not doing these apps to get rich,
just the whole idea is to come out even with plugins and RB IDE.
Regards,
Trausti
On Sep 16, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Peter De Berdt wrote:
On 16 Sep 2006, at 18:32, Robert Woodhead wrote:
My site http://selfpromotion.com/ works on the "you decide how
much to pay" principle and at one point a few years back (during
the boom) was generating low 6-figures per year. A bit lower now,
but high-5 figures for 1 hour a day of my time.
I actually did the analysis once of how I would have done if I'd
set a price for my site's services vs. letting the user decide.
At the optimium price point that captured the most revenue
(assuming everyone who contributed less didn't pay, and everyone
who contributed more paid the set price), letting people decide
what was fair doubled my income. Very surprising.
A lot depends, I think, on making the personal connection between
the author and the user. If they see you as a person, they won't
cheat you. In fact, they'll go out of their way to be fair.
Good to know that it at least has worked for someone :-) I remember
the guy developing 7zX (which is a nice utility to create 7z
archives, not very fancy, but not bad either) complained about not
a single donation, he still needed to pay for the icon and couldn't.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
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