Cogitans Commercial Products

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Ego a SharePoint amet tractus project usque ad CodePlex rem priore anno etiam finita locus suus, Ego aestimare quod suus fuerit downloaded per 40 ad 60 (potest etiam 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 🙂

Mea background est actu multo in productum progressionem et quid est requiritur ut a summo-INCISURA productum, ut opponitur CodePlex amat project, to market. In my vita, Ego auctor productum R&D for all software products. The difference between then and now is that I’m a consultant now working for an (optimum) consulens firma (Conchango). Antea, Ego me totum turba retro et ante, selling and supporting the products we brought to market. Hodie, Lorem solus.

Ego plures productum ideas in animo, 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 immenso elit licentia et $500 per production web front end. I think I would also give away the source code.

Donec turpis est, vel si sententia libentissime communicare, placere relinquat comment vel email me directe. I’d like to hear opinions like:

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Suus "facile" ad ascendit cum productum ideas et ad peragendam eos, though many dozens of hours of work are required. The other stuff is not as easy for me.

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  1. Ian Campbell
    HI Paulus,
    I’m a contractor in UK but have written a number of Sharepoint add-ons that are available for download and purchase, some have been available for a few years now.
    As Sharepoint goes mainstream I think its actually getting harder!
    You learn loads and its fun, but its tough to make a living out of it.
    Product idea and development is easy.
    Some tricky bits;
    – People want things for free! I convert <10% of downloads to sales.
    – Sales and Marketing.
    – Delivery and Payment.
    – PRAEFIXUS.
    – Demo and Live Licensing model and code to enforce it.
    – Logging and debugging for support.
    – Sharepoint can be configured/installed in Soooo many differnet ways. you have to test/support all of them.
    – Sustinere, support, support. Once you release a product you will be inundated by people with descriptive questions like ‘Its not working’. No offence but most times the user is pretty stupid and nearly always the problem is nothing to do with your code, but something completely unrelated. Even so it can take hours /days to figure this out and you have to do it remotely. The cost of servicing support calls will soon wipe out the $100 purchase price.
    My thoughts…if you could sell a product without any support it would work.
    Otherwise you need a killer app or you need to charge more.
    Good Luck.
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  2. Matt Taylor
    HI Paulus
    I’m in a very similar situation to yourself although I’m an independent, I even recently completed some consultancy on behalf Conchango in the UK. I’d be really interested in any feedback you get from this post as I too have a desire to market products (yet to be written) around the WSS/MOSS platform. You hit the nail on the head, product ideas and implementation is indeed the "easy" part.
    Best of luck,
    Matthew
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