Archive for the ‘open source’ tag
Pre-pre-pre launch!!
by Franz
Well we still have a long way to go before I’d call it a polished product that didn’t have a lot of lose ends, but the whole thing is stable and the important bits are working well. The UI has also settled down so it really feels like cleanup time to us. We’re launching concrete5.org to try to drum up some help from the open source development community as I type. Sadly there’s nothing for me to do but bug people about getting C’s in the right cases right now, so I’m posting here so my team will stop scowling at me.
concrete5.org is live! yay, tell your developer friends.
Wait… Free?
by Franz
“Okay so let me get this straight, when we first spoke it was $13k to own it, and now its free? Are you sure about this?” a dear friend and repeat client who runs an agency just asked me.
I get that you want to provide for your family, sooo what are you thinking?
Are we going to offer a “freemeium” model where you get crippleware for free and the useful parts in expensive add-ons?
Nope.
Are we going to have a different license depending who you are?
Nope.
Are we going have a donation button or something?
Yes, but it will point to our favorite charity, which can do more good with the cash than us.
So I give up, why do you think destroying your perfectly viable license revenue is going to provide stability and creative freedom?
Pricing tiers… omg.
by Franz
As a youth, you tend to think price is in some way related to cost.
It is not.
It’s easy to be taught this in your MBA course, it’s easy to think this is evil from your Marxism course, but I have found it really is the way of things. The answer to “how much is that doggy in the window?” is at best “what’s he worth to ya?” and at worse, “how much you got?” How much time, care and energy went into raising the bitch and birthing the puppy have nothing to do with it. (yes I choose that metaphor to create a credible excuse to curse. son-of-bitch-shit!)
Cranberries in Oregon…
by Franz
Hello world.
I’ve been making websites since there was a web to make ‘em on.
I’ve run my own show for almost the whole time, with a two year dabble in corporate IT at the height of the bubble.
I’m an entrepreneur who has big ideas, works hard, and wants to provide for his family. My shop wins awards, our clients generally love us, I do everything that a good mid-sized webshop should do, yet I find myself unsatisfied.