I am not happy with modules that cost more than say $300. DNN module developers can make money from volume. I feel that some Commercial DNN developers stopped improving their products. I am not sure if this is a reflection of anything like  DNN market not growing?

 

People don't want to pay recurring licenses if they don't have to. Just pay a one time fee. If I buy a shopping cart, I don't want to be paying every month if I am hosting it myself, unless the hosting and service is done by another company. I know recurring revenue works for the vendor, but it doesn't work for the customer unless it's a SaaS app. I know support can get expensive and can drain the profits. I knew it killed some DNN module vendors and they exited the DNN market. I am guessing that's what happened to Engage & Gumbosoft. That's why software has to be reliable and easy to easy. This cuts a lot on support. If I were to create a module, I will offer free support for maybe a month. If they need more support, they pay for it. I can't be selling a module for $50 and give support for it for months. My hourly fee is more than $50 so it makes no sense to work on a support issue if it takes a long time. If I worked 15 minutes on support for a copy, I am already losing money.

This is a problem. If you stop giving support after a while, users will start giving bad reviews which will affect future sales.

DNN modules and skins are already more expensive than other CMS counterparts. On Themeforest and Codecanyon almost everything is under $100 and a lot are under $50. With DNN, high end skins uses to cost like $89. Now I see skins for $149. WordPress plugins are cheap and of high quality. For example Slider Revolution is a very good slider. It sells for $19 only and it sold more than 27000 copies. One can only dream to sell a fraction of that on DNN.

    This is the first time I saw this thread, it is strange that I miss it before. Maybe you can take a look at our Cross Article v7.7 module again. It now works better than 4 years ago. You can download 60 days trail version and view live demos.
     The main features of Cross Article v7.7 are listed as follows:
     1. Powerful yet easy to use, all you need to do is to follow the setup wizard, click “Next” to let it guide you to configure module step by step.
     2. Publish everything, include news, articles, blogs, real estate, cars, job listing, product catalogs, classified ads and any content you can think of.
     3. Multi-user support, authorized users can post their own articles (listings) and attach videos, audio, photos, documents with them. Module supports automatic conversion of user uploaded videos to .flv or h.264 format.
     4. Organize data with departments and categories. Site administrator can create unlimited customize attributes for article (listing), or disable unwanted built-in data fields.
    5. Template-driven layout and design and Responsive layout support.
    6. Display articles (listings) with data list, data grid, JavaScript  slideshow, flash slideshow.
    7. Import articles from RSS feeds, Twitter Search, Twitter User Timeline. Also can generate RSS feeds from site articles.
    8. The new advanced search feature allows you specify the search conditions, you can search based every built-in data fields and customize attributes you create. Also fully integrates with DNN built-in search mechanism.
      9. SEO friendly url / Google web sitemap / Google news sitemap / support to let search engines index your articles more easily.
      10. Google Maps / Amazon Simple Storage Services (Amazon S3) support.
      11. There are 13 sub modules in package,  but all information are manage via 1 single module (CrossArticle_Admin), the other 12 sub modules are all used to display data.
      12. Fully integrate with DNN built-in journal. When a new article / comment is created, it will be automatic added into author journals.
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