Comment by wavemode

Comment by wavemode 2 days ago

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I will echo the sentiment of some other commenters - you have to decide who you're selling to, and flesh out the product more to suit that customer.

If you're selling to non-developers? They don't know what npm is. They don't know how the Web works. They will need you to provide them with a one-click solution. Typeform (the product you stated you're competing with) has a visual editor and provides hosting. It's a one-stop shop.

On the other hand, if you're selling to developers - nobody's gonna want to pay for just a form library. A frontend developer can build a form in 10 minutes. Open-source has taken over so much that, nowadays the only money in selling software to developers is in editing tools (like IDE's, AI tools, etc.) or cloud-based solutions. If you're just selling the software itself with no cloud hosting, it's gotta be something really useful and really complex, like a database or an operating system.

I think things like form builders do get somewhat close to the "solutions architect" market. That is, you may be able to sell a version of your software to people who build websites for other people. Take a look at sites like themeforest.net. Creating themes and plugins for content management systems (like wordpress, squarespace, weebly etc.) and selling them to freelancers can earn decent money.

darkhorse13 2 days ago

You're right, there's definitely a mismatch in the product right now. These types of forms are generally made by non-devs, and non-devs can't really be expected to use an npm library to build forms.