There are so many issues with doing something like this that it's almost never going to be financially viable for small companies.
- Some jurisdictions require some level of warranty, extended refund periods, or limit your ability to avoid liability for product defects.
- You need to spend time doing research to set prices for each country or region.
- You need to combat fraud from people trying to buy your product using a VPN from low cost regions.
- This one is a big one. Chargebacks tend to be higher from low cost of living countries. Payment processors will drop you if your chargeback rate gets too high. Risking a $25 chargeback fee and being dropped from your payment processor for $5-10 payments is often not worth it.
- There are only 20 million professional software developers in the world. If you say half of those are web developers and you are phenomenally successful and 1 out of every 1000 web developers in the whole world buys your software. That's 10k sales. At $5 per sale that's $50k revenue across the entire life of the product. $50k for a team of people isn't a financially viable endeavor.
Yeah I was thinking about it and I get it why regional pricing might not make sense for a product like this... Its complicated and well, it would also hurt the developers actively as well of sorts. So I don't really expect them to do such
Now, regarding 5-10$ payment, suppose we do a 20$ payment one time donation, they are a non profit so they can definitely do fiscal foundation but I can get it why you might not want to do that
I was discovering more about chargeback and other things like taxation as well
I found polar.sh could be a decent approach to a lot of these problems, just create a polar.sh set account and they have a github thing as well where you can allow access to any git private repo to anyone who pays and even a discord integration so you could have support through there out of the box
I think the same can be done through patreon or the likes as well from what I know
all I was trying to say was that yes I agree with your comment and I thought about it and the other comments regarding how 5-20$ wouldn't cover support but what if I don't need support, I just want the code and I can take the support through their discord server/like minded people?
I understand, I truly do, currently I read more about datastar, I have come to the conclusion that they are somewhat not necessary in the sense that I can have sse.ExecuteScript(`console.log("Hello from server!")`) and I think that it could be integrated with something like gsap if someone wants to hack through a animation thing without modifying datastar library itself as well
I still believe though that they should atleast give another optional method imo where someone can pay 20$ as an example to get the template of sorts but no support and using something like polar.sh or patreon or stripe with MOR, it should be pretty easy and well they have to realize that there might be people who genuinely can't afford this as well I suppose y'know?
I am genuinely curious what your thoughts are on why/if they can add a 10-20$ tier which just gives access to the code and no (official) support through github sponsors/patreon/polar.sh and the likes?
And maybe if someone needs support but can't afford it, maybe optionally they could ask it into their server so that like minded people could volunteer to help as well in the process?
What are your thoughts?