Simon B. StøvringA well-known company in our industry is offering me under half a month’s salary for the engine driving Scriptable. In fact, it’s not even the Scriptable engine, it’s the more polished Scriptable 2.0 engine.
LOL.
Follow up on this:
After I told the company that our prices are too far from each other to proceed with the negotiation, they told me that they believe that I should only be paid for the time it takes to extract Scriptable's engine from Scriptable and hand it over to them, not for the time it took to build the engine.
Bullshit!
With this mindset the next company interested in Scriptable's engine should get it for free since it has already been prepared for handover.
Last follow up on this:
I wrote the company to (politely) tell them their reasoning about the value of my product and my time is bullshit. Just now they replied "It's just supply and demand".
It's crazy how a company who recently got hundreds of millions of dollars in funding can be so ignorant about the value of other people's work.
BrokenFlows@simonbs I’m sorry that your work’s been so undervalued! You would think, by their logic, that there seems to be a lot of demand for this limited supply engine and that they’d be more respectful.
netop://ウィビ@simonbs I'd like to know the name of this company, if at all possible. DMs are open.
Jordan Morgan@simonbs I am irrationally upset about this, *but* on the flip side I am glad that you recognize your worth.
jegnux
TheMightySpitz@simonbs Tell then that you see this as a bad faith negotiation tactic, and the tax for that is a 100% markup. If they choose not to continue, then the best of luck to them finding a different supply.
m_eiman@simonbs They’re right: they demand it, you don’t supply it 🤷🏼♂️
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉@simonbs oh good lord. Well, they can replicate it themselves, will cost probably 6-9 months to productize for a Silicon Valley engineer at 300k/year. So about 150k expense to start
multigreg@Migueldeicaza @simonbs They’re not totally wrong, just bargain hunting. With the present tech downturn and layoffs, some people might be willing to sell their work for much less than before. Unless they were rude about it, I wouldn’t think much of it. If they’re truly interested, they’ll come back with a better offer and that can prompt a negotiation on more reasonable terms.
@multigreg @Migueldeicaza They were rude when they offered half a month's salary for my product.
@simonbs @Migueldeicaza trying crude psychology about value setting. You did the right thing just saying you’re not interested
Colin Humber@simonbs That’s just straight up insulting. Glad you stood your ground here! Absolutely brutal.
Chris Wagner@simonbs this is insane. Glad you told them to hit the road.
Pelle Wessman@simonbs That’s infuriating!
This while they probably value their own code as an asset within their company when they do their accounting and being very protective about all their own IP 🤦
Did you ask if you could license their code on the same terms?
Naman@simonbs All I’d like to say is that it probably not ignorance on their part. Rather they hoped to be able to pull a fast on you and get great value for almost no cost.
If they’d gotten their way they would’ve gone around bragging about their “savvy deal making”
I wouldn’t take it personally. Just counter with an unreasonably high number and give them a taste of their own medicine!
Jim Rea
Joe Chott@simonbs Honestly I think all these companies do is lowball everyone. Some people bite. Profit! :(
Gavin Anderegg@simonbs If it's just supply and demand, they should have a very easy time getting an equivalent product from someone else. It isn't worth your time thinking about further because they sound like idiots. (That said, I'm sorry you had to go through that, and I'd also be fuming if it was me.)
Alex Dong@simonbs remember. During a negotiation, whoever is ready to walk away holds the power.