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I wasn't expecting anything. I started it, because I had the idea, I saw one dominant competing product which sucked and I just wanted to get a feel for the mar

by mtrn 16y ago

I wasn't expecting anything. I started it, because I had the idea, I saw one dominant competing product which sucked and I just wanted to get a feel for the market. Yes, these leads may be precious. But it's just a desktop app, just a one-time payment. (P.S. If it were a webish app with $20/month price tag and 100 people ready to give it a try, I would be really busy implementing the stuff right now ;)

sagacity 16y ago
> But it's just a desktop app, just a one-time payment. In which case, consider building a feature or time limited freeware version initially, without support, offering users to buy/upgrade, and submit it to all the shareware/freeware joints out there. That should get you a decent number of potential buyers, a good percentage of which should convert. Test the waters this way and if you still don't get enough numbers, ditch the idea of full commercial version. HTH