| It is OK to ask for payment. However, U$150 is too high. See, I've been using two more code formatters together with SSMSBoost. Each paid 50-60 U$. I am also using a VB tool much more helpful than SSMSBoost, for the price of 60 $US. All packages have very free licenses, with most important features intact. I purchased licences to help the developers, community versions were good enough for my needs. In your case, you take out exactly the features people used the most - you collected history of use. Price of 150 is perhaps not that high, but psychologically it is high. I have spent about 150 on 3 products, two of them used to cover what SSMSBoost doesn't do particularly well - code formatting. Now I am asked to add 150 for product that will not replace the other two. Actually, the only thing competing products are lacking is copy column headers. And the cost is about 1/2 of yours. Drop the price to reasonable level - 50-60 U$ and people will buy it. Or instead, charge yearly subscription fee of say, 36 U$ = 3 per month. That is how much people pay to various bloggers. Do not ask for the steep price plus yearly renewals. Otherwise, good luck with 1% group buying your product. At the end you may find yourselves priced out off the market, with great tool to use yourself. Alas, programmers who can make tools like this seldom work in databases, so the tool would be useless to them too... |
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