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.
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