[pedalpete]

I assume this is somebody (possibly harishv7) who is just testing the market to see if anybody would by this. But as stefanmichael pointed out, there is no reason why anybody would need to buy this. There doesn't seem to be anything here that is unique and not freely available, with the support of a community of developers already working on it.

If I'm wrong, please let me know, but I'd suggest if you're going to take this approach, ask yourself why somebody would use (and pay for) whatever you're thinking of building, instead of what is already out there. Then, tell us what that is! Because that doesn't seem to be on the page.

[harishv7]

Supercharge was built because I had a lot of requests as a developer to deliver the same things over and over again - Basic pages, a simple datastore, authentication, analytics, forms etc.

Yes, there are existing open source packages. But I couldn't find something which combined all of the above seamlessly with dedicated support for clients.

What you see in the "Preview" tab is only the first instalment of what's to come. In the coming days, there will be variations with different data stores, authentication mechanisms, quickstarts for mobile apps etc.

I have had a few sales and many further requests that have filled my backlog and I am working actively on it. The customers are usually early stage devs or students who want to learn how to build such apps.

[that_guy_iain]

I personally think these things have a future, but everyone is just marketing them at the wrong people. They're marketing them wrong, if you look at ecommerce, it's clear there is lots of companies that want to buy instead of build. For the majority of generic companies, it's literally not possible. It's not even possible to build the majority of the tooling/framework/generic business logic. I think projects that target developers as their core market will fail. Developers, even at companies, just don't have the budget to buy these things at the costs it would require to make them sustainable. They don't even have the authority to make such a decision, again look at ecommerce and look who decides what software gets bought and built upon; it's generally not the CTO. It's the CEO and COO. But of course, you need to have a professional level of support to make it worthwhile for the company to buy it. The upselling on this is also reasonably good again as seen by ecommerce and other areas.

Oh and one other thing, I think any solution that isn't as vast as the ecommerce solutions are to ecommerce will also fail. Most of these are generally very small and don't tackle any issues companies will have after the MVP stage.

(Disclosure, I'm working on such an application/business framework.)