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by vkkan 5046 days ago
Hi there,

Overall site looks professional, I have few questions for you to answer 1. Nowadays platforms are very unrealistic about their offering to developers for example recent twitter announcement? since you took lot of information from stackoverflow how do you cope in future? 2. Do you think really some one buy this? since if its a big corporation they will read all magic quadrant from gartner if its a medium or small size they will try to use the tech stack based on what resources they have and they try to reuse it so often ? 3. Do you think you can sell this to outsourcing shop ? big no ? Please take my question as constructive feedback not other way around.

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Hi vkkan Thanks for your constructive criticism & questions. They're always welcome. My answers below:

1. SO data is available under the CC license. I don't expect this to change in the future. Regarding other data sources, I plan to use API or will need special agreements in hand with data providers.

2. You never know this until you try to sell. This is what I'm trying to figure out right now. If there's a good reason to believe that nobody wants to pay for this, I will proceed with plan "B" and will make the tool freely available and will need to find a different business model.

3. I would target the tool primarily at marketers, evangelists, companies building developer-focused products (books, courses, conferences, it vendors). I wasn't thinking about outsourcing shops to be honest.

Nice to hear your answers, but until you find out product/market fit no one can predict which way to go.
+1 agree with most of the above. nice site though!