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It’s simply impossible to make money selling to developers (in almost all scenarios)
by nextworddev 3y ago
It’s simply impossible to make money selling to developers (in almost all scenarios)
- thecleaner 3y agoIs Stripe a Dev tool ? What about all of AWS ? I guess the statement should be its impossible to make money selling replicable IP
- everfrustrated 3y agoI would say Stripe is a business operations tool. If I fired all my developers I still pay stripe to keep my business open. Devtools are about developer efficiency etc.
- booi 3y agoI dunno we pay thousands of dollars to GitHub just for copilot…
- fgonzag 3y agoJetbrains seems to do OK. I pay for my subscription out of pocket.
- karlshea 3y agoI think they succeed because they aren’t irritating about it. They just make good stuff and charge a reasonable amount and that’s the end of it.
- mdaniel 3y agoAlso, no BuSL stupidity, they're all Apache 2 AFAIK: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/233.14808.21/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/idea/23... And the "all you can eat" toolbox license is just a staggeringly good deal, IMHO, which also comes with a "you can keep your license forever, just no updates" which is way different from setting subscription-based licensing money on fire when your license expires. Whoever came up with that should be applauded because it really drives down my "what about" anxiety of paying subscription money for IDEs
- alephnerd 3y agoThey're able to pay East European salaries but land Enterprise deals in the US. That's the main difference, as they had lower margins compared to Hashicorp which traditionally had most of their enfineeeing in the US. Hashicorp has started pivoting hiring to Bulgaria, Poland, and India now for that reason.