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Here's what I did: at work I needed something. (A git commit graph). But the one I found was #1. buggy, and #2. too expensive. It wasn't my money, but I jus
by gsylvie 10y ago
Here's what I did: at work I needed something. (A git commit graph). But the one I found was #1. buggy, and #2. too expensive. It wasn't my money, but I just couldn't allow my company to pay that much.
So I made my own, and fixed the bug: http://bit-booster.com/best.html http://bit-booster.com/best.html
And then I realized I needed a rebase button on the pull-request screen... and so it continues to evolve.
Here's the thing: I've always known I'm a good maintenance programmer. I've always preferred working on existing software instead of making new software from scratch. And writing add-ons for Bitbucket is basically just another form of maintenance programming: reading Bitbucket's code, noticing its flaws and shortcomings, and fixing them.
Also, I love git, and I love going very deep into git (e.g., https://github.com/gsylvie/git-reverse.sh https://github.com/gsylvie/git-reverse.sh). So this is my dream job.
I've only made $7,000 USD after 1 year on this side project. But $1 of those dollars feels better than $10,000 from my day job.
- cstrat 10y agoThat is pretty awesome. I've done the maths. They say money can't buy you happiness but we all have our number. It looks like your number is around $70,000,000.
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- fiftyacorn 10y agoIts a nice product - the curves remind me of the london underground map
- annnnd 10y agoI am probably missing something obvious, but... how did you make those $7000? Donations? Nice btw.
- alfon 10y agohttps://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.bit-booster.bb.jira/server/pricing https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.bit-booster.bb... https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.bit-booster.bb/server/overview https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.bit-booster.bb...
- danielsamuels 10y agoHave you considered simplifying your pricing structure? ;)
- gsylvie 10y agoI've set 25-user at $112 and 50-user at $225 for a specific reason. Atlassian pays us add-on vendors monthly, but only once we've done $666.67 in sales since the previous remittance. Atlassian dictates the maintenance renewal price: 50% of initial price for customer to extend maintenance by 1-year. I've only been at this 1-year, so I don't know what the renewal scene is like. But I suspect renewals are good in this market, since enterprise customers often have policy requiring all their software be supported.
- amelius 10y agoI have the strong feeling that there isn't much money in software tooling. Also, like it or not, any successful product will eventually be replaced by an open-source equivalent.
- AznHisoka 10y agoYou can be both successful and open source. Look at sidekiq as an example.
- gsylvie 10y agoYes, software tooling is not a huge market compared to say, JIRA. My add-on is 287th place for sales in the last 30 days ($2800). Most of the add-ons ahead of me are for JIRA or Confluence: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/top-selling https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/top-selling Successful tooling often faces competition from open source. But I'm still using IntelliJ...