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I'm surprised there is a market at all. Selling dev tools to developers can only succeed with massive investment into making an absolutely superior product. I c

I'm surprised there is a market at all. Selling dev tools to developers can only succeed with massive investment into making an absolutely superior product. I can count on 1 finger the number of dev tools I pay for: Jetbrains. For everything else, open source tools are either the superior option or good enough. There is a huge untapped potential for selling software and services to businesses...but for some reason most developers never bother to even learn anything about the businesses they work in, let alone the businesses they don't.

lazide 5y ago
It’s ugly and uncomfortable for most developers. It’s easier to target the equivalent of ‘spherical cows’ which don’t have pesky, irritating, problems like interop with 3 different major versions of windows (all old) or the equivalent.
newaccount74 5y ago
I've made a living from selling developer tools for the last 10 years. It's not hard to sell to developers at all. Sure, there are a lot of people who only use free tools, but the 10% of devs who pay for their tools are still a huge market. I've bought a lot of licenses for developer tools - text editors, version control GUIs, a decompiler, multiple database clients, a client for SFTP, another one for testing HTTP APIs, multiple graphic editors, various ssh/shell tools for the phone... There's a lot of commercial dev tools out there and if you don't mind the fact that you will be dealing almost exclusively with tech dudes all the time it's a great opportunity.