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Yeah, definitely. When I first started, it was a significant portion of my life (it's also won a couple competitions...one of which being a business plan compe
by cbeley 11y ago
Yeah, definitely. When I first started, it was a significant portion of my life (it's also won a couple competitions...one of which being a business plan competition). I just made the very difficult decision to take on full-time employment elsewhere instead.
If I could find a partner or firm that I could use to help sell it though, I'd be completely open to it. I just haven't really found a partner or firm I felt comfortable with (or could justify the expense for). There's also the issue that Flextory is a bit hard to sell. People I have demoed directly to for their specific purpose have been easily sold and were able to justify the value. However, when I can't directly demo, I get a lot of comments about it being too expensive to justify it. Even people that were sold have iffyness on justifying the cost (despite things like netdoc, which Flextory pretty much outperforms, costing in the thousands range). I've considered lowering my prices, but if I did, I'm in a iffy situation where I may not actually make money off of it anymore if I failed to bring in new customers.
One reason I was considering open sourcing it (apart from a desire to give back to the comunity a bit), is that I could use that as a platform/advertising for selling the sass portion of it.
- seanccox 11y agoMy first thought, upon watching the video, was that this was a nice alternative to Salesforce, without a lot of the bloat that scares away non-technical sales people (like those at the company I work for). I think that if you narrowed your target market, people might more readily understand how they can use what you are selling. In any event, it's cool. If you would like to talk further, my email address is in my profile.