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Yes, about half my code and effort is handling stuff that an "app store" usually would.
by exceltrading 4y ago
Yes, about half my code and effort is handling stuff that an "app store" usually would.
- sokoloff 4y agoThings like this put the "a 30% cut is outrageous!" into a different perspective for me.
- majani 4y agoI think what's more outrageous is that more devs don't find it worth to do a website yourself and get a 10x cost reduction on transaction fees
- CamelRocketFish 4y agoWhich is even better now that it’s 15% for small business
- jerome-jh 4y agoIt is still outrageous because those two big ones make a huge economy of scale. They did not develop a payment method for a single app but for millions.
- sokoloff 4y agoServices are frequently priced by value to the buyer more than by cost to provide the service; I don't see a problem with that.
- jontas 4y agoI don't know much about this ecosystem but do you see an opportunity for a business to supply these tools (or be the app store) for excel/google sheets addons?
- exceltrading 4y agoThere definitely is for excel. Both for consumer add-ins and internal business add-ins. I've thought about it, and even started on the idea a few times, but have given up. There are just so many components of the system that are outside of your control as a developer. Someone with the appropriate resources might be able to do something neat.
- pi3rre 4y agoI thought about developing a simple Google Sheets add-on but I've been put off by Google verification process because of the scopes I use.
- giarc 4y agoI've thought about selling my code snippet for handling payments on something like Gumroad or similar. However, it's not a great solution since people still need to sign up somewhere and then install add-on. Plus they need to subscribe on stripe with their same email that the add-on will use (since the code grabs their email programmatically). As I'm thinking through this, there could be ways to mitigate some of these issues but who knows! There is someone that built something similar but for browser extensions (https://extensionpay.com/ https://extensionpay.com/).