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I would throw in a 37Signals quote in here and advise "sell your byproducts." There is money to be had from residual assets used in the process of building your
by feverishaaron 16y ago
I would throw in a 37Signals quote in here and advise "sell your byproducts." There is money to be had from residual assets used in the process of building your main product.
Did you create some nifty icons, or write a custom graphing engine for your mobile app that looks really nice? Cool. Put up a Paypal-based checkout site. Sell licenses.
- a-priori 16y agoThe risk there is that it can take a lot of effort to productize an internal tool. You need to polish it so people think it's worthwhile paying for (good design, integrations, etc.), harden it against security concerns, and so on.
- feverishaaron 16y agoNo doubt. Before taking that complicated step, throw the idea out there that you are willing to license it. Get a few developers to do that as single transactions, where you walk them through code integration. If it proves too popular for you to manage, you now know you have a market, and a reason to build out a full API and battle test it.