I second this. If a kickstarter for free CCNA classes can get funded, why not a project like this? As long as the right people see it, it will get funded.

As for editions, my vote would go to pricing based on the amount of devices monitored (<50 = free version, >50 paid, Plus direct support, API, More features?).

As the prices, I have no clue what would be good. To me personally, I use this to monitor my home lab (about 10 items), and I would have no problem paying $20-30 yearly. I know that's a low price, but then again I have very few devices, and anything more would push me away. If I feel this way, chances are others do as well, and this is why I think pricing should be based on the number of monitored devices.


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@memetic.org> wrote:

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:29:24 +0200, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl>
wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
>> Pricing is also difficult to decide on. If the majority of users won't
>> pay, it will be higher than if we have more licensees.
>>
>> If every user paid $10, we would probably be fine. I suspect not even
5%
>> will be willing to pay, though.
>
> People using Observium professionally surely can afford more than $10...
I
> am just a small single person consultancy company and it would
definitely
> be worth more than $10 to me. Surely the user base consists for more
than
> 5% of professional users.
>
> What about a kickstarter (or similar) fund raiser? :-)  A project for
> developers
>
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migrations-for-django)
> raised almost $18k, and they asked for only $2.5k. It's a one-time
income
> though...

I considered kickstarter, but I think our relevance to the general public
is so low that we'd be unlikely to reach a goal.

You're also kinda screwed on kickstarter if you can't make a flashy
video...

adam.
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