One of the products I developed, is really a niche type application (2 or 3 other competitors in the market). Although for the most part, I'm the lone user of these applications, I'm thinking of selling the app right now.My question is:Because of the small market share and that it's a niche project would you advise I open or close my application?
Pros and cons for open or close sourcing niche type products
open source;applications
An open source project without contributors is really bad.If the market is small, I doubt you will find any contributor. But I may be wrong. I don't know anything about your market.You must do a market study.If you can't afford it, try to release the software first. In free BETA to get more users, but you can do it as a paid edition too already.As soon as you get users, ask them questions directly (chat with them, don't waste your time with surveys). They will like that very much, and they will always help you to improve your solution.Ask them if they would contribute if you were open source.Analyze the results.Decide.