[HN Gopher] Decommissioning my first commercial product
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       Decommissioning my first commercial product
        
       Author : elawler24
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2024-09-04 17:34 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | codazoda wrote:
       | > It was also targetted at non-technical people and as an indie
       | developer, it's very difficult to reach that market.
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       | I found this comment interesting. I haven't had any success, not
       | for lack of trying, but it seems like most advice I've heard is
       | that technical users are hard to sell to.
        
         | hermitcrab wrote:
         | Programmers are famously hard to sell software to. Because:
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         | a) They think they could do it themself in a weekend. Even
         | though it took you 5 person years of work.
         | 
         | b) They are used to using lot of free and opensource software
         | and don't expect to pay for software.
         | 
         | Other technical users (chemical engineers, civil engineers etc)
         | are probably easier to sell to. But I don't have any data to
         | back that up.
        
         | sethhochberg wrote:
         | I read that more as saying the technical author had trouble
         | selling to a nontechnical audience because they found them hard
         | to relate to, rather than the traditional wisdom that technical
         | people in general are a tough audience for anybody
        
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