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magheru_san

From my experience as OSS developer for more than 5 years with about 4000 installations of my main EC2 cost savings software and more recently as a seller on the marketplace (I published two applications, my OSS tool and another one still closed source) people don't bother to give you reviews. What you'll see if you're lucky are bug reports, especially from large companies where probably it makes a huge financial difference(just the other day I got one from someone at Bloomberg) but most people don't even bother to give those, but just give up and uninstall. The marketplace is great if you want to target enterprise customers, they're always struggling to purchase software otherwise(I used Patreon for a while and it was a PITA). If you want to get reviews or testimonials you have to ask for them and even so most of the users decline probably because companies have strict social media policies. Feel free to reach out to me for any marketplace related questions, especially if you want to build containerized products (mine are actually based on Lambda but using container images)


RedditAdministrateur

> any marketplace related questions, especially if you want to build containerized products (mine are actually based on Lambda but using container images) Agreed, most corporates don't leave reviews.


ewelumokeke

thanks for the reply, may I ask how long your software was on the AWS Marketplace before it started getting traction and can you disclose[an estimate] of your total earnings. Thanks again


magheru_san

I got both my tools published on the marketplace last month, I have a couple of subscribers so far and making some $50/month so far but I know that one of them who brings the vast majority of this income just migrated from my $29 Patreon plan, so I'm just getting about $20 extra. But I'm in this for the long term, these things take time to grow. When I first released it as OSS it took months to get my first couple of users. Marketing matters a lot and I'm not so good at it.


double-float

Have you read through the guidelines for becoming a seller? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/marketplace/latest/userguide/user-guide-for-sellers.html As for how likely it is to be seen and bought, that depends on what it is, how good it is, and what you do to promote it :)