| It's a nice and slick project but it is unfortunately not offering a lot of value over, say, a google spreadsheet with a form data entry. Each organisation have their own rules about the data they want to track, so being able to customise the fields is a major requirement. Also, you have to provide at least a way to generate asset tags/reference following some customisable numbering rules. Then there is the bigger issue that Asset management usually doesn't stand on its own: it's usually tied up to financial reporting (what needs to be replaced for the next budget, depreciation, etc), issue tracking (what went wrong which each equipment), HR (to whom the equipment has been allocated to), security (where is the equipment, is it patched and up-to-date, ...). So Asset management tools end-up being part of a larger system, and they need that flexibility. Being able to import/export data to CSV is nice, but if you are left to do everything else in other tools, then you are not making it worthwhile for someone to pay for what amounts to a flat list of items. Data As iamdave pointed out, asset collection is also a major issue: most Asset Management tools rely on some network discovery and/or collection service that must be installed on each machine. For instance, SpiceWorks[1] is free and it's a pretty good tool that does most of what's required for a medium sized company. Then you have Open Source tools like GPLi[2] and OCS[3] and others[4] that have been around for a while and provide pretty good coverage of IT Admin needs in terms of Asset Management. So while a good start, if you want people to pay for your service, you'll need to provide something that is more accessible/more complete/better in some metric than what is already available for free. If I were you, I'd make everything free, then add advanced features that people may want to pay, including custom development for enterprise customers who always have special needs. [1]:http://www.spiceworks.com/ [2]:http://www.glpi-project.org/ [3]:http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/ [4]:http://www.open-source-guide.com/en/Solutions/Infrastructure... |