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They took development in house. It’s not like PHP (despite some obfuscators being available) can’t be edited by anyone who barely knows the language.


Did you have subscription plan or was it only pay for development?


That’s one of the places I messed up. The original agreement was that they’d fund development of the features they needed, but I retained rights to the software and they got a license as long as they were funding development, but they could license a copy in perpetuity for a flat fee. We never updated the amount of that flat fee as the feature set grew.

I had thought I needed to develop a multitenant feature set in order to sell to more people with a subscription, but I was probably incorrect on that (in hindsight).

The bigger issue was that I didn’t know how to plan for anything like that. I was essentially in reactive mode and got way behind.




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