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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
I have some more insight into this now that ours has been out for a while so I can tell you my perspective of why he might have bailed - IMHO, it had to have been a financial burden.
- There are sales, but it's absolutely not something you could live off of comfortably in a western country, and having sold many licenses he would have likely spent a good amount of time doing support.
- The market here is small as this is very specific to porn and isn't something that can be used in mainstream at all.
- Roboscripts will eventually break more. New PHP versions will become more popular, APIs will change, new sites will come out, the market's needs will change at which point we will likely see an increase in sales.
- Custom work does not augment the sales much in comparison to our tube script. There's usually small requests if anything at all, simply because there isn't that much a script like this can really potentially do. It mostly does what it's supposed to do - which is embed cams.
As I understand, It was just Nick. The scale of our business is different - we have staff already either way and we have to pay them, so providing support or creating updates in any off time we have does not really constitute any substantial additional cost or effort for me.
That's all speculation of course though.
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Good points and my thoughts also. I think he priced his scripts too low and would run sales promos too often. Then he would often provide free support that was taking too much of his time with no revenue in return.
I just wish he would have found a better way to let us know he was no longer interested in carrying the project forward and I'm sure we at least could have all helped him offset his hosting and related expenses to keep his server going. I tried to help him out by buying just about everything he was selling and spent over $400 for future projects, but unfortunately never downloaded any of the scripts I bought.