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Not really. Your market is different. Instead of selling to business managers seeking to solve a problem, you're selling to developers. Developers tend to like

• chrisrhoden 6y ago
  The definition being used here for libraries and services has both being marketed to developers. We're talking about APIs, not a web product with a UI etc. Services, in this article, doesn't refer to things that can only be built as services (e.g. because it queries a proprietary dataset) but those that might optionally be built as services (e.g. fetching and processing otherwise accessible data) and could, as easily, be built as a library.
• selfhoster11 6y ago
  There's an ecosystem of paid libraries and tools around Java and C#. While developers might like to solve problems of their own, standards compliance is one place that they likely wouldn't want to tread their own path if they can help it. They've got work to do, and deadlines.
• pjmlp 6y ago
  On the Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple and Google developer ecosystems there are plenty of shops selling libraries. Basically where most devs selling commercial software live on.
• 0xbadcafebee 6y ago
  You can totally sell libraries to business managers. You can sell sauteed rat's assholes on a stick to business managers, you just need the right sales pitch.