I haven't tried it yet, but if it does what you say it does, I honestly think you underpriced this.

You could be right, but at the same time, many people seem to expect this for free. Perhaps they underestimate the amount of work required to implement quality core functionality, or maybe they feel that all core software should be free and open source.

I recently lowered the price in hopes that more people would be willing to follow through on buying. There have been many submissions but no one seems willing to pay. I may increase the prices again later on, but it really depends on how things go.

Ultimately, I want this to be accessible to the average developer so more people have the opportunity to quickly build awesome things and bring their ideas to life. It may prove difficult to find the optimal price point.

There's still a lot of work to done, especially on the marketing/convincing side of things. Maybe I'll look for funding, but I would prefer to bootstrap it. I'll probably need to find contract work soon if no buyers follow through, however. Ideally, clients would submit via assemble.molecule.dev and we move forward from there.

>There have been many submissions but no one seems willing to pay.

Tailwind is a masterclass with regard to how to market this kind of thing.

1. Release the core of your product for free (basicially give 95% away for nothing)

2. Sell premium features/components (the last 5% of your product for serious people with a budget)

Tailwind is selling their CSS framework UI component kit for $400!!!

It's a freaking simple little design system which is nothing in comparison to what you've built here and they are *rolling* in money.

Good luck.

Second this. This product sounds amazing. But hard to believe it without seeing it. What can you charge for that enterprises/funded entities would pay for, but side projects wouldn’t need until they start making money. Like: Electron, Oracle/SQL Server support, Exchange integration, etc. Good luck! As someone who has been “working” on a SaaS project for a year, would love to try this. But can’t shell out $400 out of pocket for something I can’t touch.

I will probably do something like this. I really appreciate your suggestion(s) and feedback.

Better business model might be make some api, or layer that you control in all this...basically it becomes like a headless cms...could be as simple as centralized auth/data-hosting, then the other version for $400+ could be on-prem/self-hosted...

Then people might get 1 month trial, and then $19/month/app.

This way you start building up a lot of MRR, and can maybe add price points for # of average monthly users or something like Auth0 has.

This is a really solid idea. I'll have to think about this. It could pair well with ux-app's (sibling's) suggestion.

A suggestion: maybe you should do a document/video explaining what your app does for people like me, because while I was reading I got curious, but I don't really know what it does. After spending 18 months developing my SaaS science algo in Python (self-taught) I was like: ok, now it shouldn't be too hard to make this available in a website. I only knew very basic css,js(jq) and html, so I started to learn VueJS: it was so freaking hard I realized I wouldn't be able to do it in the timeframe I had so we have decided to launch our product with an animated wireframe instead. At that point I also knew there would be challenges in 2 other areas in which I wouldn't have the necessary time/expertise: cloud/server and security.

Oh man, I hate to hear that you are struggling to find traction since I think you're building the future here. I really hope you find a way to make this work so that you can be a trailblazer on this front. The sooner these types of things become popular, the sooner there will be competition and more contributions to this space, and it will become more accessible.

It's the right choice! When an open version comes, it will most likely be a community effort. I would do the same thing in your shoes.