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by tpmp313459 895 days ago
open sourcing is utter waste of time. What do you still working for a big coporates companies in free of cost. This is how 70% of open sourcing literally works. You work for developers who are working in firms and often firms also fork your projects. Before 4 years I've inspected iOS whats app bundle they were used lot of open source projects. I am not about contributing to Linux Systems indeed projects copied by Apple & Windows bussiness.

If you do open source work for like Linux, Server or watever which is already avaiable in high cost, then It could be considerable as great hobby. Open sourcing the innovtive, invensitions aren't good in software industries they are remains fee by commericial firms. All your intentions just go waste. Most of people see this comment negative. The other side, One day come, major jobloss will directly affect you as well even you have settled well. You will understand!
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quickthrower2 895 days ago
Not really. You just need to be strategic. $5/m for example would be reasonable for a hosted version of this, maybe add some AI touches for pro users, and then have thousands just expense it as it is well below thresholds, or just pay for it themselves.
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ipaddr 895 days ago
5 a month with 1,000 users is 5,000 a month. You add in the costs and taxes and you are left with supporting a thousand users that you can't afford to hire for. If you had 2,000 users you might be able to afford someone but now you have to support 2,000 users.

If prices were tripled you could afford to staff for now and the future (r/d).

When small you need to go higher. When you are big you can use size to scale.

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quickthrower2 895 days ago
$5 a month, the only support you get is the ability to cancel :-). However I kind of agree, given that this has sensitive data perhaps, so customers might get annoying about that, charge a bit more.
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TillE 895 days ago
Yeah the Marco Arment approach of "I'm one guy, please don't ask me to spend my time on support instead of development" is clearly the correct one at that scale.

Like absolutely you want to accept bug reports and feedback, but your users should not expect active help with normal usage.

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goenning 895 days ago
Why would they need to hire? I’m running a $5k/mo business with thousands of users and Im working solo. I have 1~2 support chat message per day which takes 10 minutes.
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