Ek het 'n SharePoint Designer uitbreidings projek tot by CodePlex vroeër vanjaar en selfs al is dit is nogal regtig beperk in omvang, Ek skat dat dit afgelaai deur 40 aan 60 (moontlik selfs 100) companies in just about two months. That indicates to me that there’s a market for that solution and if I were to successfully commercialize it, that could translate into a goodly amount of beer 🙂

My agtergrond is eintlik baie meer in die produk-ontwikkeling, en ek weet wat nodig is om 'n top-notch produk te bring, in teenstelling met 'n CodePlex stokperdjie projek, to market. In my verlede lewe, Ek was verantwoordelik vir die produk R&D for all software products. The difference between then and now is that I’m a consultant now working for an (uitstekende) raadgewende firma (Conchango). Voorheen, Ek het 'n hele maatskappy agter my en voor my, selling and supporting the products we brought to market. Vandag, Ek wil alleen wees.

Ek het 'n paar produk idees in gedagte, but I think the easiest would be to create a commercial version of the above-mentioned CodePlex project that uses that as a starting point and extends it further. My fuzzy off-the-cuff thinking is to charge something like $100 vir 'n onbeperkte ontwikkelaar lisensie en $500 per production web front end. I think I would also give away the source code.

As jy gedagtes of ervarings wat jy bereid om te deel, los 'n kommentaar of e-pos my direk. I’d like to hear opinions like:

• Is dit alles die moeite werd?
• Praktiese voorstelle vir bemarking, samel geld in, verspreiding van.
• Pryse.
• Ondersteun.
• Enige ander kommentaar wat jy wil laat.

Dit is maklik" vorendag te kom met die produk idees en om hulle te implementeer, though many dozens of hours of work are required. The other stuff is not as easy for me.

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