Questions tagged [pricing]
Pricing of software also refers to "proprietary or closed source software" which is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder.
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How to estimate scaling up costs/resources-needed of a project? [closed]
Let's consider an entrepreneur decides to create a new company like Airbnb, Netflix, etc. The problem is about the software part. He doesn't know how long it takes to create the mobile/web app? How ...
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What is an affordable way to communicate real-time data between players in a game?
I have been building a card game web app with firebase. Because firestore charges by number of reads/writes, I have only been updating the opponents of your plays when you place a card, so other ...
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What is the practicality of asking vendor to not include a specially developed feature in their standard package offering
I don't know if this is the right place to post this sort of question, so feel free to move it. Lets say that Vendor X is selling a certain software package. There are also other competitors, ...
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Are end-to-end and integration tests worth it for non-mission critical stuff?
It's well known that end-to-end and integration tests are costly. Of course if we develop applications where people might die if things go wrong it's a worthwhile investment. However in applications ...
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Pros and Cons of using ASPNET.Core In-Memory Caching instead of Redis? [closed]
I know redis is a very robust caching solution and scales great, but when it comes to simpler non-enterprise websites I feel as if it's a bit too expensive (Azure Standard/C1: $100/m). I'm ...
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How do you fix this pricing model loophole? [closed]
Suppose a SaaS product charges per project, whereby the first project you own is free. Ideally, users would open up a project and invite a few members to work on it. If more projects are needed, the ...
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Is comparing "dollar-hours" for running a specific piece of code practical as an estimate of rented system performance?
Background: there'a a gazillion types of virtual machines in Microsoft Azure each having different performance and price. Such virtual machines are paid per hour. The goal is to decide how to get "the ...
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How do you cost in maintenance / updates?
I'm interested in how companies cost in the maintenance of software and or improvement of code quality over time. The context I would like to add, is not that of a company who have a single product ...
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How to financially quantify optimal number of items in a release?
In Don Reinertsen's book - Principles of Product Development Flow - the tradeoff between release size (number of stories) and release cost (regression test cost and release cost) is described like ...
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Software monetization that is not evil [closed]
I have a free open-source project with around 800K downloads to date. I've been contacted by some monetization companies from time to time and turned them down, since I didn't want toolbar malware ...
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Does the GPL allow anyone to obtain GPL software without paying for it?
I've spotted a nice WordPress (GPL) theme for sale. I know somebody who bought it. I have 2 questions: Has the company selling it the obligation to send the source code to whoever (customers or not) ...
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How do you work out timings for larger projects?
I work for a small company that hasn't done much work in bespoke development. It's something we're growing into. With all our projects, whether a bespoke development piece of work, or a simple ...
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Storing simple / flexible pricing logic in the database
I am working on a pricing algorithm where I want to generalize the calculation of certain components/charges. There are 3 components to the charges. 1 - a basic/core charge, 2- a handling charge (...
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How to charge in agile iterative approach? [closed]
I have a doubt about budgeting when working with agile iterative approach. If I understood well, in agile at the end of each iteration we have usable product, so we have some of the requirements met ...
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How to charge customers for AGPL-3 based solution?
If I talk about openERP its and source (AGPL-3), I have studied it, but can't find some question e.g 1: we have developed a School Management System using openERP Version 7.0, as according to my ...
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