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Yes, I have a side project making ~$40k/year doing this in a niche market. I am fortunate in that I have some volunteers helping me with support so all up I sp
by quantumwoke 2y ago
Yes, I have a side project making ~$40k/year doing this in a niche market.
I am fortunate in that I have some volunteers helping me with support so all up I spend about 5-10 hours per week doing support and development work.
In terms of business model, I have been quite generous and provide a perpetual support model for free and paid customers and do not charge for upgrades (currently). As my time has become more limited, I am looking at changing this.
Benefits of this model is that my product is the gold standard in the area and relatively sticky.
- Insanity 2y agoWhich stack did you end up using?
- quantumwoke 2y agoIt's actually an old Java stack using SWT.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoIt mostly doesn't matter, I can only recall one customer ever asking me about the underlying technology.
- Insanity 2y agoAgreed, customers don’t really care. I was just curious.
- smitty1e 2y agoI just updated "GrandPrix Race Manager" for $25 from the vendor. It's an annual cost for my local derby thing. No idea how many copies they sell, but it's on version 24, so they must be doing OK-ish. Stand-alone Python application.