Prashant Deva's blog

Opening a firm ...
Congratulations.

But if anyone knows of a better service please inform me
http://www.moneybookers.com seems to work even where other payment methods don't (e.g. paypal).

4.) If u were a little shocked on reading the previous point, well yes, AS will be commercial.
Well, at point 3. you didn't mentioned that AntlrStudio will be commercial. In fact I saw this never mentioned before :). And yes, I'm shocked too :).

I wish you good luck with selling of AS.
However, I don't think there's a 'business' in this. How many people/firms are using parsers for commerial purposes(and make money of it)? How many of them choose ANTLR?
Now how many of the remaining are willing to pay for it(considering that AntlrWorks looks pretty good, and it gets better)?

Just think about it. Lot's of developers make tools for free (to get fame), and than get good gigs. From the tools alone none would survive, but without them none would get so good gigs.

Just my 2 cents,

Ahmed.

Thanks Ahmed.

Yes, i know there isnt much business with this thing.
Actually when i was making AS money was never really on my mind. I just wanted to create the best ever parser gen ide. I thought about the money part just recently. I have no idea though whether this thing will sell, if at all.


But there seem to be a few small guys who are selling parser gen ides - sand-stone.com, programmar.com, parsifalsoft.com. But then again i have no idea how much money they make.

Also Antlr Works is for antlr 3 which cant really be used currently, and AS wil get better with time too.

The firm is actually currently only me. Just thought that if i am selling it anyway then rather have a little 'branding' ;)

The real money making thing is my next project which i am currently researching on. I will give the details of it later.

And what exactly do u mean by 'gigs'? ;)

And what exactly do u mean by 'gigs'? ;)
Slang for a temporary job/project.
see this:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gig

Of course it has more meanings - that's why it's used by programmers :).

Ahmed.

I am not shocked. I believe one should be compensated for one's work. However, I will never pay for a 0.1 release which is likely of alpha quality (I say this with no direct basis except for having used software for the past 10 years).

Not only that, but the way you all of a sudden decided to make it commercial leads me to think that it is not well planned and it even sounds like a cash-grab to me.

With that in mind, I would hesitate to buy products from a company that cannot meet its own release dates. I work in an industry that cannot afford slips.

I was looking forward to being a part of this project and helping out, but now it seems I will have to be "stuck"
with emacs :)

However I wish you the best of luck and I will certainly be trying out the fully functional 30-day trials (hint, hint)

Sohail

This is lame.
I'm totally dissapointed.
You feed the people with hope with your videos, than this move :(.
Sorry pal, not with me.

Ahmed is right: there's not business in selling that tool.
If the tool is so cool as you say, you could:
- sell consultance for Eclipse RCP or the other IDEs you will use as target( you can always use the plug-in to show how a good plug-in must be done)
- if you have the knowldege, write a book about parsers(/antlr)
- just use it as wow factor to sell other products that really have a market, or to get new projects as Ahmed said.

I suppose with your move, you scare away most users.

Even more, I think you should delete the post as quick as possible - to minimize the damage.

there's reason in using opencode; i'm sure you found lots of it when you found tparr's tool. good luck in your commercial endeavor... you might still want to consider opening your source, and creating a community around your product... people might license it in use in their own products, or you could create community/commercial versions as it becomes more stable and integrated.

enjoy,
jangst

I will stick to vim :-)

did u just die :P

did you just die :P