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Dear developers,
I just finished my project (outlook 2007 addin) and it is ready for deployment.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how to Determine the Right Price for it that is because the price should be a function of the costs and practically maintenance.
Can someone please list the maintenance costs of an application?
I have difficulties particular in the ratio of tech support per user (maintenance costs)
Tanks
Patrick
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pinifg wrote: Can someone please list the maintenance costs of an application?
How can anyone other than the developer know this? Maintenance cost is a function of the complexity of the app and the number of support people required, multiplied by the number of customers who need help. Almost impossible to guess in advance.
The price for your app can also only be determined by you as a function of the devlopment cost, the number of users, and the time period in which you hope to recover your costs. You also need to pitch it not too far above the competition unless you are certain that it's a killer app that will sweep the board.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Tanks,
Yes you are right, I now the complexity of my application but I thought maybe there is
A discussion on the subject that list more costs that I didn’t though about
And case studies in order to forecast it better and maybe make changes now before Deployment involves simple maintenance in the future.
Do you know more?
Tanks,
Patrick
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pinifg wrote: Do you know more?
Sorry no, but you could look at some of the other discussions here.
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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I suppose that depends upon the type of app, the customer base etc.
Our company develops a app for a small group of customers. They yearly pay a fixed perc of the initial prize to get support. If they have additional wishes, they have to pay additional per hour or fixedprice.
A new (custom)module is prized the same way: they buy it, normally fixed prize, and the support prize per year rises with the same perc.
The prize for the module is based upon investment in resources plus a risk margin and sometimes devided by the number of clients we know that will buy it.
I don't know how TotalCommander does it, but they charge only once, and give updates for free.
They probably have a very big userbase.
Regards ... OttO
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You have to determine the pricing model first that you want to do, for example a one time fee or a subscription service. It is a great question but not one anyone else can answer. You have to have a feel for what the market is willing to pay. You have to decide.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Depends on
1.Efforts for implementation
2.If you are implementing as project then price should be more depend on point 1
3.IF you are implementing as product then it depends on your market penetrating strategy which covers point 1 as well as marketing ,support . it also requires consideration in making enhancement in product as per its market type
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Hi,
I am planning to launch one s/w product that handles Employee ralated data. What are the best ways to do the same.
sanjeev
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Hi Sanjeev,
IMHO Few are the ways that comes to my mind.
-> Identify the target customers, that you will be makeing your product for.
-> It will be a good idea to approach a few potential customers and have tips frm them on, what all new features they would like to have
-> Built in the flexibility to customized your prouct for the select few clients, and do mention about its customization features in the Product Display Session
-> Try to have some feature that's are not available in competitor's products.
-> With product related to "Employee Related Data". Do make sure that Data retrival speeds are up to the mark.
Do advertise about your produce thats the most imp part, there are alot of grate proucts out there, but what they lack is there, lack of avertisiment on right forums.
Don't wait for the customers, rather be pro-active in identifying the customers and walking to them.
Last but not lease BEST OF LUCK
Thanks,
Anshul
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Thanks buddy
have a great day ahead..
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What is the employee related data? With out knowing that can't suggest you.
Now days we have many erp for employee management.So, make your product should consists of existing management service and should have more advantages compared with others.
Hope it will be succeed.
Have a good day Sanjeev.
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Hello,
Thanks for your valuable input will get back to you over here for some more input.
Have a good day...
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Hi,
there are several possibility,
1) if you have enough fund to market it.
- in this case you can develop your website and do some SEO work and give some advertisement in other related websites like codeproject.
2) if you do not have enough fund.
- in this case you can create some evolution version of your software and once people will addict with your software they will definitely purchase it.
there can be more options with that all depend on your project fund and project size.
thanks
-Amit
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Hi Friends,
I have developed few products viz. Employer Surveillance and Parental Surveillance. Also a website to sell those products. Please check my website http://www.surveillancesoftwares.com/
Can someone help me selling all my projects (along with source code) and that website?
These projects have received various awards and 5 star ratings. These have been very well received by all the parties who did install them. You can just download any of them from my website and install them. I guarantee, you all will love them.
Please let me know if someone can help me in selling my projects.
Best Regards
Aseem Sharma
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Just to let you know that most of those award and download sites are really meaningless to somone that will purchase your software/site. Typically what things like this sell for is take the last year of sales, triple it and that is what you can honestly sell it for. They will want to see your books on it to make sure and verify everything. They will probably also make you sign a non-compete so that you don't just go and use this to do a code rewrite and then contact all of your old customers again. They will also want your full customer database. This way they can contact them with updates.
Steve Maier
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I think Apple is a great example for a successful company, that had its' struggles.
Apple never gave up. Since the beginning, Apple produced expensive computers and didn't have great sales. Microsoft always dominated the market. Despite this, Apple continued to produce quality over quantity; whereas, Microsoft and its hardware vendors produced quantity over quality.
*My HP broke down in 3 years, I bought it for $900. My friend bought an Apple for $1000-something, and it broke down after 7 years.
To understand quality over quantity, think about this: Apple, IBM, and Microsoft started the computer revolution. Where is Apple now? Where is IBM now? Where is Microsoft now? Apple is dominating; IBM, except of big companies, no one has a clue about what they do, including me; Microsoft is just struggling with Windows, Office, WP7, tablet PC, etc. Although no company has fallen, Apple came up, while Microsoft and IBM went a bit down.
Apple's production of great quality products earned it an image of a respectable company. And when Apple launched the iPhone-family, everything changed. Apple dominated the market, because now Apple has quality and quantity. Whereas, companies like Microsoft, Nokia, and RIM are just starting to understand quality.
iPad is another innovation. Now there is huge chaos in table market; HP, Sony, RIM, Microsoft, Motorola, etc., are trying to meet the standards of the iPad. But it easn't easy to meet the standards of a company that has had higher standards since the start of the computer ear.
Lessons learned:
1. Despite good/bad sales, keep confidence, keep innovating, keep moving forward.
2. Quality over quantity. Produce high quality software/hardware, that will earn reputation and fans.
3. Look at the long run, not the short run. If you want to live in the market, you might want to consider making an image of yourself that everyone likes.
Please feel free to add other things.
Harsimran Singh
"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." - Ted Nelson "Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?" - Clifford Stoll
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Lessons learned:
1. Despite good/bad sales, keep confidence, keep innovating, keep moving forward. Patent stuff that can't possibly work with current tech, then hammer the competition to keep innovation across the sectory down
2. Quality over quantity. Produce high quality software/hardware, that will earn reputation and fans. Then restrict what it can do so that when you do give your customers what they need, you can tell them it is a good thing
3. Look at the long run, not the short run. If you want to live in the market, you might want to consider making an image of yourself that everyone likes. Form a monopoly and charge exorbitant fees for allowing people to sell stuff they have written on the only channel you allow. Don't allow people to use videos/music they paid for on software other than your own. Keep techno-idiot media-types on side so they think you are the bee-knees
Item 1:
Samsung v Apple[^]
HTC Challenges Apple Patent Infringement Case[^]
Item 2:
Apple Intentionally Cripples Bluetooth[^]
Stuff missing from Apple Product[^]
5 reasons not to upgrade to mac OS X Lion/1506[^]
Item 3:
Apples 30% cut of your earnings[^]
Apple's love for drm and consumer lock-ins[^]
These are just the tip of the Iceberg and much of it has been going on for decades. Despite all of this there are hoardes of these fanbois defending almost every action I describe above. I can only ascribe this to some form of Stockholm Syndrome[^]. Sorry, but I forgot, they look so prurrrrty.
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Hi guys,
I'm looking for some feedback on a web service I recently joined as a team member. We're a platform for publishing and discovering source-code (mainly premium / commercial but also free). We recently opened a game development category and have some components published there already.
What do you think about this concept? would you be interested in purchasing commercial packages if it could save you serious time & money or improve your performance?
Would appreciate any feedback you guys have (good or bad). Thanks!
http://www.binpress.com
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First thing: you don't want to advertise here, its easy to be labeled a spammer and get booted off. If you're not a spammer, then don't do that. If you are, you'll probably be booted soon.
daniellh wrote: What do you think about this concept? would you be interested in purchasing commercial packages if it could save you serious time & money or improve your performance?
Only if it will really help... but considering all the free frameworks and development libraries, you'd have some stiff competition.
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