[desktopapp]

Surprised to see the random comment I made surface on this. Dug back out the anon account if anyone has questions or needs encouragement to strike out on their own.

[i_don_t_know]

Congratulations on your success!

1. If you're not using electron, what do you use? Are you happy with your choice (can you do what you want to do with reasonably effort)?

2. How did you get started? Did your app start as a side project, or did you go all out from the beginning? Was is spun-off as part of a consulting gig?

3. How did you find your niche? Did you scratch your own itch? Did you look for opportunities? Did you come across an opportunity by chance or through some previous experience/employment?

4. How did you decide that this was an opportunity worth pursuing? That is, how did you decide that your niche might be big enough to support you, and/or that you could compete?

[desktopapp]

1. Electron but obviously not a decade ago

2. All out. A couple contract jobs until ramen profitable.

3. Scratched own itch

4. Growth kept happening.

[edko]

Do you do anything to avoid piracy?

[desktopapp]

Nothing out of the ordinary. I've always looked at it as free advertising. Make sure they need to crack every version and make sure you can shut down a rogue serial number from your activation server.

[mdevere]

any thoughts on SME customers vs consumers?

[desktopapp]

Not too many average consumers willing to pay $50+ for software. But if you can find something with a reasonable sized market [developer tools] where people are willing to pay, then go for the larger base of users. But the days of average people buying novelty mac apps for meaningful money is over. The low hanging fruit is being given away by the OS or Google or some freemium offering.