Single or Joint Venture?
May 30, 2007 – 1:56 pm
I wrote the other week about Selling Code and how I had a shopping cart script which someone had shown interest in purchasing. Nothing more came of that mainly due to the end client, however it started the ball rolling on my thoughts. I often wondered if I could just sell my script to my own clients, offer designer friends the option to knock up templates and allow clients to buy an premade shop or have a custom design made. Then I wondered if my code was worthy of being sold (yes I know, no self esteem or confidence!).
After I realised that I may be able to get some interest, I then started to wonder whether it would be a good idea to have a pair of fresh eyes on the project, someone who could point out obvious points that I'd missed, essentially telling me what else was needed, then between us selling the code be it as a product or to a client for a new shop. I know others who are interested in seeing if I could write an osCommerce conversion script to allow them to upgrade from that to mine etc. All of which I think would be quite a good package, but alone I have no confidence in what I've done, whether it's even worthy of being sold etc.
Burt's post about fulltime online job got me thinking further today especially with his 8th point/tip
There is nothing better than going into a partnership with your online friends. If you have chosen your partner(s) well enough, there’ll be no problems at all. And seeing all of you becoming successful is very satisfying.
This is so true, afterall I'm not an overly business person, I hate dealing with clients and I'm definitely not one for sales, but I'm happy to put the scripting work in etc. So perhaps I need to start thinking about finding someone who can do the jobs I can't. I think the only issue I have at present however is that I don't want to let anyone down, and despite trying to clear up all current business work and doing my best to ignore new quote requests coming through (it's my way of saying 'No'!) I'd still be concerned with letting a partner down who'd point out further updates to be done and me taking longer than hoped for etc. I think it's something to look at in the future when I know I can dedicate my time better, hopefully this summer. I also think my code will need rewriting into OOP too, which is something I'm still coming to grips with!
2 Responses to “Single or Joint Venture?”
What is OOP?
By Timo Davis on May 30, 2007
Hi Timo, OOP is Object Oriented Programming. If you hover your mouse over the abbreviation you'll get a tool tip saying this too
By Sarah on May 31, 2007