Great question!
I believe this is a good problem to have, and perhaps one day I'll be lucky enough to face this.
I've spent some time thinking of how to monetize Pantry - perhaps a private tier, something that is more feature-rich?
I believe this is a good problem to have, and perhaps one day I'll be lucky enough to face this.
I've spent some time thinking of how to monetize Pantry - perhaps a private tier, something that is more feature-rich?
It was all open and fun and funny.
Then parse.com shutdown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_(platform) -- What started out as fun project for several developers turned into a dead project for us all, which by then had hundreds of users around the world, who were now getting errors instead of fun.
We all used different programming languages, nobody was able to re-engineer all of our clients into a new endpoint/api. My takeaway -- any one of us could have hosted the JSON api, but we made the mistake in thinking we would use a free 3rd party service. That decision killed the project.
Beware of Vadering your project: Figure out what you can charge for early, and never offer it for free.
Time to step away from the keyboard and think about the business side of this project.
Oh, I did add a "BuyMeCoffee" button on the About page, but its more of a donation. - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/imRohan
I might keep it as a free service for the time being and do some research to see if there's value in a paid tier. Thanks!