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Hammer is a nice, well designed product, kudos to you and congrats on it. I was actually surprised it doesn't net you a larger income. Do you think you guys ar

by snide 13y ago

Hammer is a nice, well designed product, kudos to you and congrats on it. I was actually surprised it doesn't net you a larger income. Do you think you guys are missing on marketing, or that you're hitting a niche that's too small (frontend osx owning developers that can code, but not enough to set up small dev environments)? I'll admit that I'm mostly a frotnend dev / designer myself, but since I have enough ability to set up things like git, bower and grunt myself hammer seems to aim at a skill curve just lower than myself. That said I bet I'm underestimating the amount of people that still use php includes for simple static sites. My guess might be that their might be more in the Windows world, though that could be a prejudice. Good luck on your work and continue building cool software!

elliottkember 13y ago
Hey, that's a really nice comment! Thank you so much for your feedback. I'd love to make more on Hammer. We make okay money on Hammer and don't have to work on it too much. I think there's a few reasons we don't make more. For one, I don't know that there's big money in developer tools, especially given the vast number of free tools as you've said. We are planning a few extra pay-monthly features which might be really nice, mainly new features for hammr.co. Recurring subscriptions are a better long-term model. We're also integrating with our hosting platform Forge (getforge.com) which you might've seen. Super-fast static hosting. That's the hosting provider we use for the Hammer and Anvil sites. > hammer seems to aim at a skill curve just lower than myself A lot of people feel this way. I personally think Hammer's great no matter what skill level you are. We're trying to keep it zero-configuration; a very simple, consistent tool. Not too many clever tags to remember, and less support and maintenance on our end. > My guess might be that their might be more in the Windows world, though that could be a prejudice. A Hammer gem sure would be nice! ;)

by snide 13y ago

elliottkember 13y ago

Hey, that's a really nice comment! Thank you so much for your feedback. I'd love to make more on Hammer. We make okay money on Hammer and don't have to work on it too much. I think there's a few reasons we don't make more. For one, I don't know that there's big money in developer tools, especially given the vast number of free tools as you've said. We are planning a few extra pay-monthly features which might be really nice, mainly new features for hammr.co. Recurring subscriptions are a better long-term model. We're also integrating with our hosting platform Forge (getforge.com) which you might've seen. Super-fast static hosting. That's the hosting provider we use for the Hammer and Anvil sites. > hammer seems to aim at a skill curve just lower than myself A lot of people feel this way. I personally think Hammer's great no matter what skill level you are. We're trying to keep it zero-configuration; a very simple, consistent tool. Not too many clever tags to remember, and less support and maintenance on our end. > My guess might be that their might be more in the Windows world, though that could be a prejudice. A Hammer gem sure would be nice! ;)