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As I understand, you are in the same market as the NCover [http://www.ncover.com http://www.ncover.com] guys. As I compare your site and NCover site, NCover si

As I understand, you are in the same market as the NCover [http://www.ncover.com http://www.ncover.com] guys. As I compare your site and NCover site, NCover site clearly stands out. Not because it is beautifully designed (it is drop dead gorgeous) but it clearly conveys why I would want the product in the first place. The first attention grabbing line (in big, bold letters) on your page is, 'Analyze and Query Your .Net Code Using Linq'. My question, 'why would I want to do code analysis using LINQ? How does it benefit me? Compare this to NCover site: 'Code Quality Matters and NCover helps you improve the code quality.' As they say, don't tell me what your product can do, tell me what I can do with your product. Your product looks interesting enough, I will download it and give it a whirl. EDIT: You plan to charge 25$ for this product? Really? I would not set a price less than 100$ if you want to be taken seriously. Excuse me, but MS Developer landscape is nothing like the Linux land, and people will pay money if your product is good. [And if it is no good, they won't buy it at even 25$]. For comparison, NCover charges 480$ per user + 1 year subscription at 180$.

viggity 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'll be doing a lot of modification of the next month or so. As far as the pricing goes, I did this because I'm hoping that it is low enough that your standard developer will just open up their wallet and buy the software without worrying about getting their boss's approval. In other words I want the price to evoke a "why the hell wouldn't I buy this" response. My competitors charge several hundred dollars per seat, but I think most companies end up just buying one or two licenses for their architects. I'm hoping I can make near the same amount of money because a company would look at the price and buy a license for all their developers. I do hope I'll be able to squeeze more money out of the corporate overlords by having an edition meant to run on a build server, that edition will run $200/server. I know this might sound crazy, but at least for the time being it is more important for me maximize my number of users instead of maximizing my profits. I want to pay back the .Net community by providing reasonably priced software. I'm not saying I'll never bump my prices, but not in the foreseeable future.

viggity 17y ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'll be doing a lot of modification of the next month or so. As far as the pricing goes, I did this because I'm hoping that it is low enough that your standard developer will just open up their wallet and buy the software without worrying about getting their boss's approval. In other words I want the price to evoke a "why the hell wouldn't I buy this" response. My competitors charge several hundred dollars per seat, but I think most companies end up just buying one or two licenses for their architects. I'm hoping I can make near the same amount of money because a company would look at the price and buy a license for all their developers. I do hope I'll be able to squeeze more money out of the corporate overlords by having an edition meant to run on a build server, that edition will run $200/server. I know this might sound crazy, but at least for the time being it is more important for me maximize my number of users instead of maximizing my profits. I want to pay back the .Net community by providing reasonably priced software. I'm not saying I'll never bump my prices, but not in the foreseeable future.