Q: What do you think about making money by writing shareware software?
What do you think about creating shareware software to be sold online through a microsite and download sites (twocows, download.com, etc...)? Is it a viable and easy to approach way of making money (e.g. 10K a month)? I ask this, because everyone else seems to be betting on the Web 2.0 trend. Is there space for small nice little desktop utilities in 2006? (BTW, I'm an experienced developer)

A: 10k a month? funny boy huh?

A: Shareware is a wretched way to make money. Most of use just download something and keep using it - Winzip is a prime example. If you're really betting on Web 2.0 (I'm not) then you do some sort of ASP / Web / Java program, and charge a subscription rate. Be ready to charge a very small amount of money and hope for a huge volume, then to be bought out by M$ or Google. I worked for a dot-com ASP, where you got a free 30 days then charged $10 a month (50+ good quality children's titles). The take rate was great for 29 days, then it dropped to zero. When they closed they were bringing in enough REVENUE (not profit, revenue) to pay for the Friday employee pizza lunch, which was used to explain why more people were fired that week. I don't see any software company that is making good $$$. Even M$ has done a reorg and a layoff. Most companies are living off of older code (stuff they wrote for Win9x) that they update because investors want profits NOW, not in the future. Worse yet, you see the open source stuff getting good enough to satisfy most users.

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Q: What do you think about making money by writing shareware software?
What do you think about creating shareware software to be sold online through a microsite and download sites (twocows, download.com, etc...)? Is it a viable and easy to approach way of making money (e.g. 10K a month)? I ask this, because everyone else seems to be betting on the Web 2.0 trend. Is there space for small nice little desktop utilities in 2006? (BTW, I'm an experienced developer)

问: 你觉着写共享软件赚钱怎么样?
写共享软件, 通过小网站和下载站点(twocows, download.com等)在线销售, 你觉着怎么样? 这是不是一个简单可行的赚钱方式 (比方说: 每月万刀)? 我问这个, 因为看来人人都把赌押到Web 2.0扩展上, 2006年优秀的桌面小软件还有空间吗? (顺便说: 我是个有经验的开发人员)

A: 10k a month? funny boy huh?

答1: 每月万刀? 小伙逗吧?

A: Shareware is a wretched way to make money. Most of use just download something and keep using it - Winzip is a prime example. If you're really betting on Web 2.0 (I'm not) then you do some sort of ASP / Web / Java program, and charge a subscription rate. Be ready to charge a very small amount of money and hope for a huge volume, then to be bought out by M$ or Google. I worked for a dot-com ASP, where you got a free 30 days then charged $10 a month (50+ good quality children's titles). The take rate was great for 29 days, then it dropped to zero. When they closed they were bringing in enough REVENUE (not profit, revenue) to pay for the Friday employee pizza lunch, which was used to explain why more people were fired that week. I don't see any software company that is making good $$$. Even M$ has done a reorg and a layoff. Most companies are living off of older code (stuff they wrote for Win9x) that they update because investors want profits NOW, not in the future. Worse yet, you see the open source stuff getting good enough to satisfy most users.

答2: 写共享软件是个不咋地的赚钱方式. 多数人只不过是下载了就用它 - Winzip就是个典型例子. 要是你真的把赌押到web 2.0上 (我可不), 那你就该做些 ASP / Web / Java 之类的程序, 我给一家.com写过ASP, 那地方让你免费一个月, 然后每月交10刀(50刀 则提供优质儿童题材). 前29天人气非常了得, 然后就降到0了. 等他们关门的时候他们有了足够的收入(是收入, 不是利润) 给周五员工的午餐(pizza饼)付帐, 这顿饭用于解释为啥那周开除了那么多人. 我没见着哪家软件公司在发大财, 就是微软也有过一次重组、一次解雇. 好多公司靠更新旧代码(win9X底下的) 活命, 因为投资商要的是眼前利润, 不是将来的. 还有更糟的 -- 你发现开源的东西让人们非常满意了.


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[ 本帖最后由 enthappy 于 2007-4-8 01:19 编辑 ]

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原帖由 lonsoft 于 2007-4-7 13:36 发表
好多单词不认识。教教我

谦虚啊

每月万刀? 小伙逗吧?

里面的精髓就是。
把人气做旺。
然后把公司卖给更大的公司
然后开掉员工。

这下，世界清静了，好多刀刀阿。。。