Thanks for the discussion everyone one :) Glad you feel its worth talking about!
A little history just for fun:
- I launched: http://quixly.com back in 2010 after a year in development. It was the first app i had seen that got rid of the idea of a shopping cart and let you pay URLs.
- Then I launched Space Box in 2012. The goal was to make Stripe user friendly for the non-developer.
- Plasso is now the first step in something bigger I want to tackle. It's my host desire to replace paypal... but i've got a ways to go. Still need to polish the selling tools on Plasso.. then attack the buyer's side of things.
I've been at the digital delivery game since 2009 really, its fun, but a lot of work. I really love Plasso (obviously ;) and my favorite thing about it, which sheds light on it's future is the 'Pay Me' feature: http://plasso.co/drew@drewwilson.com have people pay you easy peasy. Soon to have bank & bit coin transfers!
Anywho.. i hope this is the start of something big. We'll see.
This is neat. What about selling something (like a premium WordPress plugin) that might have updates? Is there anyway to automatically notify or even deliver to previous customers?
Yeah, I like yours better for sure. But please don't compete on price! Charge for the useful analytics and CSS customization. louisck's web developer should use your product for his next $5 video and you deserve to get paid for that.
It strikes me as very sad that in bringing down a monopoly (Paypal), already you are advocating price collusion amongst the new players in the industry...
I think the real point he's making is that it shouldn't be free. Stop giving away your work for free. This is what made the iOS market so hard to make money in.
What, you spent 4 months working on that app? Dammit 1.99 is just too much to pay for that. Oh it's free? What the heck are these ads doing here. I hate your ads. Go F* yourself. Seriously. I got a support email today that told me to "Fuck off" because of the ads in one of my free apps. The race to the bottom isn't a good thing for anyone.
Yes. Its called a competitive market - I don't know how you can seriously argue against such a thing in the modern world, where all of us rely on it (price competition) for basically everything we buy.
Though (perhaps thankfully, given the response to my post) the relatively simple nature of this means that its (if not now then soon) going to be a price-competitive industry anyway.
This doesn't seem to work in Chrome on Windows; do you know of any workarounds there? That's not really a small market segment anymore, and I'm not sure I could sell our design team on font icons without a viable solution.
Everything is cached and served very quickly. The main advantage is you can change the icons on the fly at no additional cost. If you update your interface, add new icons or remove some, you can make those changes in that app and you don't even need to grab a new code snippet.
If you want to serve them yourself, that option is there as well. Thanks!!
Yes it's very true. All the customers in that list are people who have purchased my icon sets. Some of them use then in internal tools, some use them for their public website or mobile apps. Thanks!
The reason I put the question mark there was that I wasn't sure if the example I was looking at was a full demo. I forget now which page - but it was definitely doing something with JS on empty divs - pretty sure it was the display examples on the front page; looking at them with inspect element on FF... although perhaps they just look like empty divs ...
Ya good question :) I built the marketing site before the service was finished. I wanted to launch quickly, so decided to use images instead of the font so I could focus on getting the app finished. Also, I sell the icons as PNGs and vectors, so it's showing customers that as well. Thanks!!
A little history just for fun:
- I launched: http://quixly.com back in 2010 after a year in development. It was the first app i had seen that got rid of the idea of a shopping cart and let you pay URLs.
- Then I launched Space Box in 2012. The goal was to make Stripe user friendly for the non-developer.
- Plasso is now the first step in something bigger I want to tackle. It's my host desire to replace paypal... but i've got a ways to go. Still need to polish the selling tools on Plasso.. then attack the buyer's side of things.
I've been at the digital delivery game since 2009 really, its fun, but a lot of work. I really love Plasso (obviously ;) and my favorite thing about it, which sheds light on it's future is the 'Pay Me' feature: http://plasso.co/drew@drewwilson.com have people pay you easy peasy. Soon to have bank & bit coin transfers!
Anywho.. i hope this is the start of something big. We'll see.