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Would you be interested in paying per search, paying for access or just general donations based on your experience? I ask as I am doing this but have not consi

• Groxx 15y ago
  Micropayments suck, currently. If that ever changes, I'd be in favor of both per-search and access; until then, maybe a freemium setup? It'd be hard to hook programmers without letting them try it, and you can experiment with more computationally-expensive searches (regex, AST, etc) without letting random users tank your system. I wonder if you could even build a market off open-sourcing the engine, thus allowing people to improve it for you, and run a paid service that searches GitHub, Google, etc for results. Free accounts for contributors that fix bugs or provide speed / feature improvements? I dunno, just throwing ideas out while they're percolating, I haven't given them a whole lot of thought.
  • boyter 15y ago
    Yes I don't like micro-payments myself either. Freemium is my current plan. I had also considered the GitHub model. I will be making portions free-software as the whole thing is built off it anyway. If nothing else I will be going free for quite a while as I believe that there should be a code search repository available online. For the record it will live at http://searchco.de/ http://searchco.de/ I was in the middle of pushing out my second release when Google made its announcement so its looking a little worn at the moment.