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They went from a company trying to sell to restaurants to one that will sell to developers? Developers are some of the cheapest people I know. Many refuse to
by cwilkes 10y ago
They went from a company trying to sell to restaurants to one that will sell to developers?
Developers are some of the cheapest people I know. Many refuse to even pay for tools that save them a lot of hours per month (i.e. PyCharm). They don't know how to value their own time.
So unless they start targeting the C level management this product is probably doomed.
- the_watcher 10y agoDevelopers are cheap in that they won't pay for something themselves if they have a remotely functional workaround. Development teams, however, are much less frugal about spending their employer's money to save them time and pain, and it's pretty easy to get management to sign off on purchasing something that will save their developers time, pain, or just plain make them happier.
- JetSpiegel 10y ago> and it's pretty easy to get management to sign off on purchasing something Whooa, where is this mythical land of milk and honey, and can I but tickets to get there?
- rhizome 10y agoDo you work someplace that won't pay for Photoshop or even SublimeText (et al)?
- hudell 10y agoI worked in companies that would try to avoid paying for those and companies that would never pay for those no matter what.
- infinite8s 10y agoHow successful were those companies?
- the_watcher 10y agoI've worked for companies that would never pay for those, companies that would pay for pretty much anything if we made a case that it would help us, and my current employer, who will pay for things that we can prove delivers value, but don't default to saying "yes, we'll pay for," and who also audit every subscription they're paying for quarterly.
- simonswords82 10y ago> it's pretty easy to get management to sign off on purchasing something that will save their developers time, pain, or just plain make them happier. Managers will also pay to increase the quality of a developers output. This includes testing/QA and code review tools for example.
- distances 10y agoI work for a smallish company, as a developer. We get to choose our own tools. I think the reasoning is valid -- who would know better than the developers what actually will make them more productive? In practice, I don't need to approve any purchase with management. I have a company credit card, and if I feel I need license for Sublime Text I'll just buy it. But you are right -- as a private person I'm quite a bit more price sensitive about my tools than as a professional who is expected to deliver.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoI don't think they are trying to sell to developers (even if developers are their users).
- lordnacho 10y agoHaving grown up in a restaurant to become a developer, I would say it's a lot harder to sell to a restaurant. My parents would never spend any budget on anything tech at all. They would still have a hard time seeing the benefits of something like JustEat or Deliveroo, where an outsider might think it was obvious. I suspect there's a lot of restaurant businesses with very conservative owners. A dev can easily go and pay a few hundred buck for some IDE that they turn out not to use after a few weeks.
- jonnathanson 10y ago"I suspect there's a lot of restaurant businesses with very conservative owners." That's probably most restaurants, given how shitty the margins in that business are. An owner can ill afford to make a mistake.
- nojvek 10y agoWhat were the pricing models of JustEat and Deliveroo?