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I liked the point "GitHub probably makes more money from their largest Enterprise customer than from all personal accounts combined". I think the same is true f

I liked the point "GitHub probably makes more money from their largest Enterprise customer than from all personal accounts combined". I think the same is true for desktop apps. For instance, Sublime Text's price point of $70 is precisely for Enterprises. Nevertheless, I believe ST could easily make an extra $ x0,000 by having a one day sale for personal customers. I blogged about this [1]. [1]: https://fman.io/blog/finally-understanding-sublime-texts-pricing/?s=hn https://fman.io/blog/finally-understanding-sublime-texts-pri...

paulddraper 9y ago
Huh? For software I use 5 hours a day, $70 is definitely personal pricing. Compare, say, Intellij IDEA (does some things better, some things worse), which sells for several hundred dollars per year.
- mherrmann 9y ago
  It's seriously great you see it that way. I wish there were more people like you. As a bootstrapper, I compare it to my other (eg. living) expenses. $70 feeds me for several days. You mention IntelliJ. I use another JetBrains IDE: PyCharm. A two year subscription cost me $66. Sure, I will have to pay again in two years time. But I would argue PyCharm is much more powerful than ST. That's no criticism of ST. It provides tremendous value and as I mention in the post, I did buy a license. But I don't think that most people consider $70 "personal pricing". I wish it were that way because I'm selling a (ST-inspired) desktop app myself [1]. But I don't think it is. [1]: https://fman.io https://fman.io
  - paulddraper 9y ago
    Perhaps you have an educational or startup discount? Two years of PyCharm is $358 for commercial, or $160 for personal use. And that's just for Python. 3x that if you want Java, Ruby, PHP, etc.
    - mherrmann 9y ago
      Yes I have some kind of start up discount I think.