How should I price my software as a service? I'm targetting developers
1. Create CRUD REST API very quickly.
2. Create a REST API that fetch information from a third party REST API, merge it with some in-house information, taken from a CRUD API, then output it to the user.
3. Create REST APIs based on 1+ sql databases, create specific sql queries with the request, and output results. This is used to create a micro-service architecture on top of an old sql database.
4. Create websites that relies entirely on REST APIs as their data source.
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The key advantages are:
1. Write code in less type.
2. Do not bother about the internal architecture of your APIs/Websites. The compiler will take care of this. Just focus on your micro-service architecture.
3. Do not bother about framework signature changes on version updates. The compiler fixes those on re-compilation.
4. You also write the Functional and Unit tests in the DSL, so maintaining those are very easy and NOT time consuming.
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I'd like to create a startup with this application. I was planning on launching the compiler using a software as a service approach.
It would be free for everyone to create projects where the code is visible to everyone. Basically, on my website, there would be a list of users with the list of projects they are working on. If they use the free service, their code would be visible to everyone.
If someone wants to make private projects, they would be charged on a monthly basis.
I was wondering, based on the information I stated in this article, how much do you think I should charge for such a service, in your opinion? If you could elaborate on why I should charge this amount, that would be be VERY appreciated!!
Thanks a lot in advance guys!