How would you monetize it?
Some of the ways we've thought about:
1) Donate button. 2) Paid PRO version. 3) Ads. 4) Affiliate offers. 5) Creating a new paid extension and promoting it through Sideplayer.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Whatever you do, you'll have an easier time getting people to pay small amounts if you compare the amounts to something people buy everyday, like a vending machine candy bar, a 6 pack of soda, or a large pizza. People won't give you 20 bucks normally, but if they feel like they are paying for a pizza, they are much more likely to do so.
Do the Donate button now and then consider a paid PRO version. Keep track of who donated so you can give them a free key to the pro version.
If you do do donations, offer access to a special donation mailing list with voting for features, and prioritize them for bug reporting.
The real question is whether you have interesting enough features to support a Pro version that aren't trivial enough to implement that someone will come by and offer the same thing for free. If the original app was $500 and is technically as simple as it seems, I wouldn't rely on it being hard to create a competitor to keep people from offering a free version that has all the features of your paid version. That is, unless you can secure a contract with some paid service that you can integrate with that others can't. Contracts are probably the best way to raise the bar for competitors, especially if you can secure an exclusive contract in some manner. I'm not sure what this would be, so it may not be feasible.
In the end, I personally would probably go with a Donate or Patreon link (Patreon if you want to create more cool stuff (maybe for for free) and see if people will subsidize your projects. The alternative is to either get pressured from free offerings because your solution isn't hard enough to keep them away, or from paid competitors because the market warrants it, or maybe you sit right between them and it's hard enough that a free offering isn't as good or available, but it's too much pain for too little money for a competitor to compete. If you hit that sweet spot, it's probably easy money, but it might not be a lot of money (otherwise the competitors would still be trying).
I really like the Patreon idea though. I've never thought about software as a content people can sponsor you for on Patreon. That's a really interesting concept and the reason I asked this question here. Long live HN.
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complains about :
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what you have there ?