Picturelicious, Paypal and Getting Rich
As of today, Picturelicious – the PHP Script that drives lowbird.com – is now for sale. This is the first time I’m really trying to sell some of my stuff as software, so let’s see how this works out.
Packaging up something for a public release always means work, lots and lots of work. Asaph was no different and I was not even selling it. This time I had to be even more thorough. $700 is a lot of money, so I made sure I’d have a proper readme, all configuration variables are documented, the code is cleaned up and the script is really worth what you’re paying for.
I implemented a Paypal button to receive payments for Picturelicious; it really made me wish for an App Store. I do have the feeling that I will complain a lot about the App Store once I try to sell Yuckfu for the iPhone, but for now, Paypal sucks. It’s unbelievably complicated for the vendor and the customer. It tries to please everyone, but ultimately only confuses with too many options. Luckily, the software I’m selling only appeals to people who probably know how to use Paypal. But let’s not blame Paypal; let’s blame the W3C or whoever was to lazy to work out how the 402 HTTP status could be put to use.
7 Comments:
looks really nice ;) Chapeau!
Yeah, Paypal is a bitch.
Also I got an error when trying to upload an image on the demo account.
Fatal error: Call to undefined method DirectoryIterator::getRealPath() in /var/www/dominic/picturelicious/demo/lib/filesystem.php on line 25
otherwise looks slick.
Awww, now that's embarrassing. I really should have gone with a more default server config here. Thanks for the notice!
If I can say something: price for this script is too expensiv. It's realy great script but price still too high.
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Ein App fürs Apfelhandy, welches die neusten Bilder von picturelicious holt wäre grandios. Könnte man ja mit ner mobilen Verwaltung kombinieren. Oder so. Sei halt kreativ 8[
HOLY FUCK! when i saw lowbird, i wanted that script! there was no link to THIS page, even today there's no one. so i wrote this entire thing by myself. holy shit, if i knew that you are selling this, i had bought it. dude, you should really learn something bout proper marketing! even with google and all the nerdy tools i know it's not possible to find out how lowbird is driven... damn damn damn.
The guy running Lowbird bought this script. The license allows modification of the complete source and it was his decision to remove the "powered by picturelicious" line from the footer. Nothing I can (or want to) do about it.