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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: 2) by opinionated_science on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:58PM

    by opinionated_science (4031) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:58PM (#401355)

    I look forward to seeing what MDC produces - I may not use it, need it, but I applaud the creativity.

    And as far as command line tools go, I proposed one a day or so go, to reuse binary code paths . I feel sure someone would slap a gui on it, but I would make it for the command line.

    Same for protein tools , gene tools, DNA tools, MD tools (gromacs, namd, amber, lammps ) etc...

    So compelling command line, sure no limit. Paying for one...?

    I wrote a spotify add blocker in perl if anyone cares and is too cheap to pay...;-)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @01:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 14 2016, @01:13AM (#401556)

    Not only am I too cheap to pay for Spotify, I'm too cheap to even pay for your ad blocker.