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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I feel the same way about my email service, port87.com. Marketing is a whole other beast than development.

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  • Mora@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Honestly, one look at the pricing page showed me why I would not use this service. FastMail takes 6€ for 60 GB of storage and custom domains, mailbox.org takes 3€ for 10 GB storage and custom domains. Yours would approximately come doen to 30$ or 16$ respectively.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I developed my own email server and client over 4 years. My R&D cost was about $250,000, and that resulted in email unlike any other service. I can guarantee it’s unlike any other service, because it’s patented. It does not use an off-the-shelf email server, mostly because there are no off-the-shelf email servers that work the way Port87 does.

      Even still, I tried to price my services at a fair markup from what it actually costs me to run it.

      So if all you want is just basic email with standard features, yeah, you can get it cheaper elsewhere. You can even just set up Postfix, Dovecot, and Roundcube at home. But you get something different with Port87.

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• nick_ocb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Exactly this. I spent 2.5 years coding my game and 6 months just trying to tell people it exists. Marketing is a completely different skill set.

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• CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve heard stories of people paying for a calories calculator as a service, which means, they pay monthly for it.

  Sooner your realize that making money has nothing to do with hard skills.

  If one knows how to talk and fool people they can sell dry clay saying it’s coffee.

  The problem lies on the ethical aspect of the thing, many companies are sustained on manipulating and fooling their customers that their product has any genuine value, and less aware people just buy.

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  • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Its called marketing

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    • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ok, you got me.

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I made a little game 3 years ago. I’m still it’s only player as it isn’t even published anywhere. But I enjoy it.

  I have future publishing plans but well knowing that the total number of players is unlikely to change.

  The thing with indie dev is that you really should do it because you love the craft. Because realistically speaking, if you look the numbers, having expectations about many people playing your game (don’t even talk about paying for it) could lead to a big disappointment.

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