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Created: October 13, 2016 / Updated: November 26, 2017 / Status: in progress / 1 min read (~194 words)
Created: October 13, 2016 / Updated: November 26, 2017 / Status: in progress / 1 min read (~194 words)
- https://cartalyst.com/
- 75$/3 months
- 25$/month
- Subscription-based model
- Some development must be done in order to protect the software against forbidden use (no subscription)
- May require a "call-to-home" (Internet connection) to verify the subscription is still valid
- Might be easily countered by firewalling the application
- We may allow it to go unchecked for 1-X days until we tell the user to connect, but that is bad user experience
- Might be easily countered by firewalling the application
- Similar to subscription based, but on a per use basis
- Code is freely available
- Makes it more difficult to live on producing the software
- ($X*0.2)/user/year in support fees
- Fee per request
- X$/user (one time fee)
- ($X*0.2)/user/year in support fees
- Tools are never shared with the outside world
- Develop tools to use on a per-project basis, where clients spent 5k$+ on a single pass
- Tools are never shared with the outside world