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Ask SN: Best Online Store for a Command-Line Tool

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 13 2016, @12:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the bucks-for-bytes dept.

MichaelDavidCrawford writes:

I'm nearing feature completion of a command-line tool that I hope will enable me to pay my rent myself. There are many services that provide online stores; which would be the best for me?

I expect to provide installers for .deb and .rpm Linuxes (Linuces?), *BSD, Mac OS X and Windows. The user will select the platform, pay then download the installer.

I expect I'll provide a time-limited demo.

It won't have DRM as I'm convinced someone would just crack it. And really DRM sounds like a PITA from my perspective. The product will be inexpensive; I have the hope that most people would rather pay than have to figure out how to download a "liberated" product.

The eCommerce services I've checked out so far enable the sale of physical products as well as Software as a Service.

I am less concerned with the cost of my store provided I can still make a profit.

I'm not going to sell it through Apple's App Store because I don't want to deal with the sandbox. I expect most of my users will be comfortable with command-lines; I don't forsee them wanting to shop at the App Store.

I hope to go Alpha in a week.

[In consideration of other Soylentils who may have a product with a GUI, or even this submitter should they decide to add one, what other store(s) would you recommend? -Ed.]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:00PM (#401326)

    I have a subtly different point of view than you. I agree that most apps outside of games and B2B software don't sell. Having tried direct sales from binpress, I can honestly say that software does not sell, however plugins and APIs might work. For instance, it seems that if you want an embedded PDF viewer, $999 is a steal that someone is buying: http://www.binpress.com/app/pdftouch-sdk/859 [binpress.com] . If you look around in binpress, you will find the "software" section is sitting nearly devoid of reviews but the "code" section appears to have lots of usage.

    I realize it is a bit late to change your product now, but realistically if possible convert your tool into a API that someone else can leverage in their app.

    - JCD