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Hi, I 100% agree with you. I want this product to make money so that I can devote my full time to it. The basic functionality will always be free without ads
by amedvednikov 9y ago
Hi,
I 100% agree with you. I want this product to make money so that I can devote my full time to it.
The basic functionality will always be free without ads and tracking. But there will also be a very affordable ($1-2/mo) premium plan. I haven't yet decided what it's going to have. Most likely an ability to add more than 5 accounts or multiple accounts on the same platform (e.g. 3 Slack profiles).
- ge0rg 9y agoIt's perfectly fine to make money, nobody argues that. The point is that Open Source and making money don't contradict each other. Examples: - Conversations, the Android XMPP client, is GPL and sold on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conversations https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.siacs.conve... - There is also a paid hosted XMPP service on conversations.im. - I have a paid+OSS app for amateur radio geolocation on Google Play myself. You can download the APK from the homepage or just directly buy it for some bucks. - X-Chat, the OSS IRC client has a paid Windows version: http://xchat.org/windows/ http://xchat.org/windows/ You could OSS your app under whatever license you want, and still provide paid builds for any platform you want.
- rawrmaan 9y agoDon’t price your service so low! Anything below $5/mo gives the perception of having little value to offer. Plus you’re gonna lose a fat percentage to credit card processing.
- amedvednikov 9y agoTo avoid credit card fees I was thinking about $12-24/year. I don't want to charge a lot for a chat client, but these prices are not final. I know that charging too little is a mistake.
- sfilargi 9y agoOpen source and making money can be orthogonal