Do you mind if I ask why not? It seems like something that should make a whole load more money, and if it puts people off, changing the code to say is_subscription_valid() {return TRUE;} and switching back should be trivial.
Implementing in the first place shouldn't be too painful if you can steal some code from Appointment Reminder.
I know I'm underestimating the total amount of work here, but is it really going to take more than a couple of days? Unless there's crazy invoice integration work required, in which case I understand - that's a painful world!
Edit: although I appreciate that consulting rates way outstrip revenues from SaaS a lot of the time. Still, it's nice to have some income whilst you're on holiday ;)
It's largely a question of messaging this change to customers, dealing with approximately 7,000 existing customers and answering "No, no, don't worry, YOU still get it for life!", changing marketing copy site-wide, yadda yadda yadda... and then, pot-of-gold-at-end-of-rainbow-style, getting a few thousand bucks extra in 2013.
Call it, oh, two weeks of work. Two weeks at my consulting rate is... umm... a more reliable method of getting a fairly sizable chunk of money up-front, if I am interested in getting more money right away. Two weeks of work on AR, by comparison, gets me fairly little money right now but gets me much closer to where I eventually want to be than the same marginal work on BCC. (e.g. I did two weeks of work on AR in the last two months, and increased paying customers by 50%. Not like rate of acquisition, like total. Feel free to guesstimate how much that is worth to either a) my income in 2013 or b) the implied value of owning 100% of the shares in AR. It's a heck of a lot more than either a) how much money BCC could reasonably make in 2013 or b) the delta in implicit sale values of BCC. There are other projects I could spend two weeks on, with a variety of professional and personal goals attached, which all sound more fun to me.
As of September 2012, BCC is a fun laboratory I get to play in (and draw stories from) more than it is a core line of business for me.
Do you mind if I ask why not? It seems like something that should make a whole load more money, and if it puts people off, changing the code to say is_subscription_valid() {return TRUE;} and switching back should be trivial.
Implementing in the first place shouldn't be too painful if you can steal some code from Appointment Reminder.
I know I'm underestimating the total amount of work here, but is it really going to take more than a couple of days? Unless there's crazy invoice integration work required, in which case I understand - that's a painful world!
Edit: although I appreciate that consulting rates way outstrip revenues from SaaS a lot of the time. Still, it's nice to have some income whilst you're on holiday ;)