In reply to Making a case for subscriptions-based Market.

houstonlively•24th of January 2016

The first thing that comes to my mind, is: What's the motivation for a market vendor to rake in a whopping $3 a month for three years, instead of just getting the entire $50 at once? That might be a good business model for vendors that live in third world impoverished countries where micro financing is popular, but it's not a good business model for the rest of the world. $50 to $100 is NOT a high price for a software product with a very, very low sales volume like a Dolphin module.

I just don't see more

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Andrew Boon•24th of January 2016•to houstonlively

This was my fear with Dolphin licensing as well. In the first few months it's VERY painful, but eventually the volume builds up. Also maintaining one-off payment option helps to maintain cashflow. For us it took 3 months to achieve 50/50 revenue from subscriptions vs one-off payments. That's with monthly license cost sitting at exactly 5% of one-off fee.

My gut feeling is that we'll see only a small number of subscription modules initially, only from long-term committed vendors. After a few months see more

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houstonlively•27th of January 2016•to Andrew Boon

Is Boonex going to maintain the necessary licensing server for hundreds of different modules? The whole concept is not without some technical challenges. There's a lot of work that will need to be put into solving a problem that barely exists

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Andrew Boon•27th of January 2016•to houstonlively

Yes, we have a lot of pieces of the puzzle stacked up already. There are still some serious challenges, but not an unfathomable amount. I think this is an important future-proofing step.

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