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> everyone who wants to make a living writing software needs a recurring revenue stream You can have a recurring revenue stream with pay once software. Every d
by jakobegger 7y ago
> everyone who wants to make a living writing software needs a recurring revenue stream
You can have a recurring revenue stream with pay once software. Every day, hundreds of thousands of new people are born who don't have a license yet!
It's really easy to make the same amount of money with pay once licenses compared to subscriptions: just take the average number of months that someone uses your app, multiply with monthly price, make that the "pay once" price, done! Now you have the same revenue but don't need to charge for subscriptions, and you get all the money up front!
- blihp 7y agoEvery year the percentage of users willing to pay anything for standalone/prepaid software drops. And the price those left are willing to pay drops as well. The reality is that for the most part the prepaid consumer software market is dead and has been for at least several years.
- jen20 7y agoThat is absolutely not the definition of recurring revenue.
- jakobegger 7y agoWhy not? The developer gets money every month. How is that not "recurring"? I sell a software product (pay once with upgrades every few years), and every month people show up and buy licenses. My monthly revenue is pretty stable, and I definitely consider it "recurring revenue".
- jen20 7y agoRecurring revenue by definition is not one-off payments for something.