We do something on the IoT side with our local first air quality monitors. So no forced platform lock in or subscriptions. We are pretty much the only one in the space doing this and it has definitely been a big advantage for us to differentiate ourselves.
I think there is a big underserved market with self hostable products (didn't we once call these desktop applications ;)
Wish you all the best with your business model.
mooreds 10 hours ago [-]
> We do something on the IoT side with our local first air quality monitors. So no forced platform lock in or subscriptions.
Took a quick look at your site (from your profile). Are you charging a one-time fee for the monitor, then? How often do people need new ones? Is there data reporting that can be sent to your servers or elsewhere? How do you avoid running into a situation where you are losing money supporting a 10 year old air monitor?
> Wish you all the best with your business model.
Thanks! We've definitely found it to be a differentiator for certain types of customers.
> didn't we once call these desktop applications
I struggle with the name. Self-hostable, downloadable, BYOS (bring your own server). Desktop doesn't feel right, at least for our product, because in prod, it is almost always running on a remote server.
remram 2 hours ago [-]
"Locally-runnable"? Or probably just "hosted or desktop".
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Took a quick look at your site (from your profile). Are you charging a one-time fee for the monitor, then? How often do people need new ones? Is there data reporting that can be sent to your servers or elsewhere? How do you avoid running into a situation where you are losing money supporting a 10 year old air monitor?
> Wish you all the best with your business model.
Thanks! We've definitely found it to be a differentiator for certain types of customers.
> didn't we once call these desktop applications
I struggle with the name. Self-hostable, downloadable, BYOS (bring your own server). Desktop doesn't feel right, at least for our product, because in prod, it is almost always running on a remote server.