Re: [now OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C - Interest in product?
Re: [now OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C - Interest in product?
- Subject: Re: [now OT] Licensing/Implementing in Cocoa/Obj-C - Interest in product?
- From: Dave Thorup <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 21:08:27 -0400
On Apr 7, 2004, at 12:15 AM, Hal Mueller wrote:
Stefan,
Just that by itself would be valuable.
But even more valuable would be if you handled more of the back end.
Provide a library to take the credit card numbers and transmit them
for processing, handle the processing for us, keep a DB of
usernames/license keys so the users can reinstall sw.
Sorry to chime in late on this...
There is already a company that provides this (for Mac and Windows)
called eSellerate (www.esellerate.net). I use them for my shareware
and I'm very happy with them. They provide their own serial number
generation and will send it directly to your customers when they buy
the product and they only take 10% (up to $15,000 in sales). You can
even integrate the purchasing process directly into the applicatio so
they don't have to use their browser to go to a web store and later
manually enter the serial number. The purchasing process will save the
serial number for them making the purchase easy and seamless.
They provide too many services for me to list them here. The bottom
line is that for only 10% of my sales I'm getting the bargain of a
lifetime with the services they provide. If you'd like to see an
example of their services in action you can take a look at my products:
HyperSpell -
http://www.kuwan.net/hyperspell
Defaults Manager -
http://www.kuwan.net/defaultsmanager
On Apr 6, 2004, at 7:20 PM, Stefan Pantke wrote:
How is the general interest in such a system?
We might pack a product and probably sell it.
As for Stefan, if you're looking to provide an advanced licensing
solution I would suggest contacting eSellerate. I think that the
serial numbers that they provide are good enough for me and other
shareware developers, but larger, commercial developers might want
something more powerful. I think that there would be a good market for
this with their customer base. They could provide an Enterprise
Licensing Scheme that provides for better security and thus charges a
larger percentage. I don't know how receptive they would be, but I
think that it's a good idea and something they might be interested in.
Also, if you've got something that is already close to production (or
could be soon) then it might make a better sell.
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Defaults Manager - The premier editor for Mac OS X's User Defaults /
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