The plan was to sell TTSync as a hosted service, but no one is going to trust their private data to an unknown company, and it will stay unknown until I get a bunch of customers. Problemo. So.. plan B - package it up and get people to install it themselves. There are several issues here straight off...
- its in Java. Its dead easy for someone to to reverse engineer and run off with the fruits of my labours.
- How do I license it?
- Its a bit complicated to configure.
I've looked as obfus
Over the years I've met or heard of edu IT staff who have written some software and started up in business selling it. Sounds easy. I've decided to give it a try, and (possibly by way of free advertising) keep a journal of what happens.
Me: about 10 years ago I did an OU degree in software development, then landed another network manager job, and my new found skills were left on the shelf. However, over the years I've noticed a gap in the market - electronic student timetables. Wouldn't it be