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If I sell 200 licenses for my desktop app in one year at $10/pop, that's $2,000 in my pocket. Your license server costs $288/year. I'll need to continue using
by sjs382 9y ago
If I sell 200 licenses for my desktop app in one year at $10/pop, that's $2,000 in my pocket.
Your license server costs $288/year. I'll need to continue using it as long as my software is in use—lets say 5 years. The service will cost me $1440 over that period.
Over that period, I'd be paying you 72% of my gross revenue.
If I only sold 100, then it would cost me $440 more than I made on licenses.
If I sold to the plan's max of 1000, your service would cost me 14% of my gross revenue ($1440 of my $10,000 gross) over that five years.
A pricing scheme that closer resembles $x/license (forever) is something I would be more interested in.
- jermaustin1 9y agoI can't speak for the founder of this company, but I would assume their product goes more toward the yearly/monthly recurring software licenses, not for a one-time purchases. One way around this "limitation" is to store somewhere in the machine that it was activated already, and then you can cancel your service at keygen.sh. Then if you make your sales all in a single month, you only pay $24 (or roughly 1%).
- ezekg 9y agoAppreciate your feedback. I'm not at all married to the current pricing, and I believe there's room for a smaller plan so that I can support developers who aren't making a lot with their app or are in the process of building it. I'll look into it. :)
- ezekg 9y agoHey, just an update! I shipped a new value-based pricing model today (https://keygen.sh/pricing https://keygen.sh/pricing) after getting feedback from HN as well as others. Would love to hear your thoughts!