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You don't. Developers would rather spend two months building their own than spending a dollar on yours. No matter how awesome. I have been there.
by Brian60625 16y ago
You don't. Developers would rather spend two months building their own than spending a dollar on yours. No matter how awesome. I have been there.
- sroussey 16y agoYeah, I know... though it is already too late at this point. Usually I just volunteer for dev tools (I'm a contributor to Firebug).
- minalecs 16y agoIn all honestly I don't think that is true, and would really like to see your product. As a developer unless the utility provides a huge boost in productivity ( which is relative ), or is a tool that i've been looking for a long time.. its not really worth paying for. Also developers tend to be forgiving when it comes to tools and will accept free or open source alternatives more than an average user, again unless their is a perceived huge productivity boost. For example: Firebug was such a huge boost in doing web development, they could of easily charged for this and developers would of payed.
- sroussey 16y agoMaybe, but I know how much developers have donated to Firebug, and, well, I hope this does better!
- tst 16y agoSo he should try to sell this to their CIOs?
- sroussey 16y agoI like that, I just need to find them...
- dstein 16y agoDevelopers would rather spend two months building their own than spending a dollar on yours. This is a true, and somewhat unfortunate side-effect of the open source movement. The expectation that all tools be free, makes it completely unprofitable to build quality tools. And thus, makes it harder to build quality software.
- hasenj 16y agoOn the other hand, it made tools really cheap, so you can almost take them for granted and focus on building products for end users without worrying too much about the cost of tools.