Business model

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Created: October 13, 2016 / Updated: November 26, 2017 / Status: in progress / 1 min read (~194 words)

  • Some development must be done in order to protect the software against forbidden use (no subscription)
  • May require a "call-to-home" (Internet connection) to verify the subscription is still valid
    • Might be easily countered by firewalling the application
      • We may allow it to go unchecked for 1-X days until we tell the user to connect, but that is bad user experience

  • Similar to subscription based, but on a per use basis

  • Code is freely available
    • Makes it more difficult to live on producing the software

  • ($X*0.2)/user/year in support fees
  • Fee per request

  • X$/user (one time fee)
  • ($X*0.2)/user/year in support fees

  • Tools are never shared with the outside world

  • Develop tools to use on a per-project basis, where clients spent 5k$+ on a single pass
  • Tools are never shared with the outside world