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Ask HN: Ways to Monetize an IDE Project?
I'm working in the IDE that I want to use but I want to explore if it has business potential.
The issue about IDE's is that they are meant to deliver you the experience of the full development cycle without interruptions: snippet, code run, debug, organize code.
As the language isn't mainstream, the audience is a niche market which should be a plus.
I'm making it because all IDEs for this niche have a mix of incredibly good and impossibly lame UX in their GUIs. My project is an attempt to remove the bad parts improving UX and aesthetics in its way.
But I'm really not sure if a business it's possible at all, ideas?
- togaen 4y agoTry selling it. If people buy it, there’s a business there. That’s really the only way to find out.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoThat's for sure the question is to try to sell what when it's about an IDE. Assuming the UX is successful enough, a full cycle of functionality for developing needs to be there for keeping great developers engaged and positive about it. So what parts or extras to sell? In the business sense, starts to feel like a making a free platform in which you try to sell apps. In that sense is like rist raised to the power of 2.
- 8organicbits 4y agoSure, there's a number of paid IDEs and text editors out there. You may be able to follow in their steps, use similar pricing models, etc.
- sebastianconcpt 4y agoI wonder if it would make sense to try something like per seat license based for business and to be like MIT for personal use?