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I don't know why, but sometimes I find myself unwilling, or, at least hesitant to profit from my favorite projects while others, have no problem. Is it an art

• jasonkester 17y ago
  Yeah, psychology must have something to do with it. I think it has something to do with knowing exactly what sort of effort went in to the project. We tend to think of Commercial Software as this Big thing that Big teams from Big companies spend years to develop. Windows took 400 man-years or whatever to develop and it only costs $79 a copy. Why should my thing that I spent less than 500 hours on be worth that much? From the outside though, nobody else can tell how hard it was to build. They only see that it solves their problem and that it's valuable. It's a false dichotomy (hard to build vs. valuable). We all have stories of the 3-day hack we built that made the company $400K, and we've all seen marketing guys go nuts thinking that our little internal tool could be re-packaged as the Next Big Thing. If only we could muster that sort of enthusiasm about our own stuff, we'd be a lot more likely to put a price tag on it.
  • messel 17y ago
    Bullseye jason. The value is not what you perceive it to be, what what users are willing to pay. He needs a good monetization plan.