Jan 25th, 2011, 10:02 AM
(Dec 18th, 2010, 10:57 AM)Ben Wrote: What to do?
I just don’t have time to help out in the forums these days, and I know people are running into problems. I’ve stopped taking on any additional paid contract work (in addition to my day job) so I can work on 2.1.0, but I still have projects for some a larger clients that need to get done. I’ve all but abandoned my other Open Source project – generatedata.com – much to my chagrin.
I was very saddened to read about an old Form Tools user switching to another script this last week due to a problem that cropped up – one that I’m sure we could have solved had I had the time.
It’s beginning to feel like Form Tools has gotten as large as it can be with the resources (me and Joe!) at its disposal. The bulk of my time is no longer spent on the script itself and more on the documentation, maintaining the website and support. If we had an income, we could hire new people to help. Heck, maybe I could quit my day job and work on this full-time. Plus, BOY it would be nice to hire people that knew more than me! I’m pretty good at what I do, but I know my own limitations.
I’ve been discussing this possibility with Joe, my business partner for a long, long time – and it seems like that ultimately, moving to some sort of commercial model is inevitable if we want the project to grow.
So what do you think? How would you feel about two versions of Form Tools? One paid, one free.
Perhaps just paid modules – or even making the upcoming Form Builder component being paid?
- Ben
Absolutely!