Thank you for your encouragement, it really means a lot, particularly at my delicate pre-launch jitters stage.
Congrats!
And it's about time, slacker.
So true. So, so true.
What is ACNE? You can imagine that searches return a different kind of acne
ACNE was tvCAD's predecessor - the Automated Cable Number Extractor, written by a mate of mine in VB6 for the Sydney Olympics TV projects in 2000. Quite a lot of Australian broadcast facilities adopted the standard. It hasn't been touched for 10 years and is long unsupported, hence my market opportunity.
Wow! Super powerful! What is the price point?
I'm still working that out. I have never announced this - I'm thinking of starting at launch (all USD) at roughly
- $87, $23 maintenance from year 2
- $47 for an annual subscription
- $15 for a monthly subscription
from there on the only way is up ("baby"), especially as I add features. If you're on my mailing list at
https://www.cadreplace.com/ there's a once-only $20 off a perpetual license launch special. That will expire on June 30th but it's only for those on the list. I'm a mad fan of "grandfathering" pricing so anyone who has a license will never get a price increase on what they already pay. I'm making a list and I'm checking it twice, if you get my drift.
I would really love your thoughts on this pricing (+ or -), on everything really, message me here or email my username here at gmail.com if you don't want to make it public. You don't have to be nice, just polite.I don't want to make it "fart app" cheap because then you end up with
pathological customers Are you releasing as a one man shop?
I'd love some quick descriptions on what technologies/approaches you're using for:
- Licensing
- Payment
- Website/distribution
- Crash/Error Reporting
- Yup, just me.
- Licensing is Infralution- I bought the source code and made some mods, mostly for tvCAD and floating licensing. Support from Infralution is excellent.
- I will most likely distribute CAD replace via FastSpring & the App stores for AutoCAD & BricsCAD. tvCAD will be a manual process since it won't sell in the hundreds of copies, let alone meeeeellions. Ah, I can dream. I looked into setting up my own store website etc but that's not my gig and it's hard. More on this: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/t/my-vat-moss-experience-so-far/2497/68
- Crash reporting? Me? I don't need ... ok, still deciding between Sentry, Bugsnag, Rollbar or Raygun. Logging is all by Serilog which also ties into the crash reporting & I use Tailblazer to watch the local logs roll by.
This is the email I sent out to the group a couple of days ago:
https://mailchi.mp/b7232cb1d3ba/cad-replace-launches-on-may-13