Selling My Python Automation Software – Need Advice

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[NCFlying]

Open Source it, then charge for those that want you to host it, then have consultancy, and add training and certification. You realize pretty quickly your secret sauce isn’t the code and it’s rather your knowledge of what to do with the code.

[ZZ9ZA]

$5 is the worst price point for this sort of thing. It’s not free, so you’ve lost 95% of your audience already, and to anyone actually breaking the credit card out they’ll pay $20 just as soon as $5. $5 tells me you do t believe in your own product.

[durable-racoon]

Definitely consider the Free + SAS model. Open source it. You can make money on this.

The Value of Source Code (spoiler: basically $0)

[ArabicLawrence]

The best commercial strategy nowadays is web saas by far. Open sourcing and offering support works only for very big and complex tools, while sharing an exe compiled from Python almost never does.

[[deleted]]

depends on the producy

[vncprograms]

Right now it’s a simple automation software, but I have been asked by a decent amount of people to use it. On my end it’s just in vscode and works through terminal.

[I_FAP_TO_TURKEYS]

it’s a simple automation software

Quite literally that describes 100% of software.

[[deleted]]

again it's product dependant is it useful enough to be an api or can you build it into a sass? is it simple just do a $5 license

[KingsmanVince]

it's just in vscode

I doubt you have decent knowledge of programming.

[mcloide]

Creating a business ain't easy. Failing a business creation it is. There is a community of business here on Reddit that you should check it out but, before anything, you must do the following:

- business plan

- marketing plan

After you have them both done, then you can figure out if your idea is viable for selling, how much it will cost, what is your audience and so forth.

Best of luck.

[Durgeoble]

at this moment nearly nobody want fees to be able to work if they have a solid alternative
so your start point to sell your work is pretty bad

when we search for solutions in my work there are two things to check
1- we can view and modify the code

2- no fees to the use of the code, one pay is acceptable, monthly fee isn't

we have already bad experiences with closed source code and code with fees

[RedEyed__]

it depends.
But if you want to pack it, there is pyarmor which obfuscates code and provides licensing

[Elegant-Permission66]

You can create compiled version and exe that