Selling 3rd party cad software

[sullen]

I have a dialog box controled lisp routine specifically for designing in the civil field. The company i created it at has it for free (i wrote it on there time) and the designers who use it swear by it. I can get testimonies upon reuest. I have made an installer for it and its ready to go public. But im at a loss as to where to start to go public.

What would be the best way to go about selling this?
Has any one else sold routines and have some input?
Are there any 3rd party cad software retailers out there that i can hook up with?
Can i post a topic in these forums specifically trying to sell it in here?
Or is there any one in here thats interested in hearing more about it?

Any help is greatly appreciated and thanked for in advance.

[sullen]

I forgot to mention that I DO own this program. The company i created it at waved legal rites to it. It is legally mine.

[Anonymous]

There is a classified group designated for that.

The Classifieds discussion group can be accessed in either of the following
ways:

By NNTP discussion group reader at
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wrote in message news:5760910@discussion.autodesk.com...

> Can i post a topic in these forums specifically trying to sell it in here?

[Anonymous]

If you wrote it on your employer's time, it belongs to them.

Period.

This topic has been discussed many times on this forum

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Your parameters to sell the program must be:

It must be seriously better (5 times more productive as a guideline) than
Autodesk Civil 3D in the components that it offers. It must address more
than local issues to sell outside your local area. Possibly it should
address metric units as well as imperial 10%

It should have an attractive/intuitive user interface. 15%

It must have independent multi-user quality control. 15%

It must run on multiple computer environments. 15%

It must have quality help files. 15%

It must have an "Idiot proof" installation program. (*** see below for
further useful tools of the install) 10%

It must have a method of distribution for the software itself and
upgrades/bug fixes etc. 5%

You must have a marketing organisation which has contacts into the
organisations which may buy the program. 50%
This includes contacts, sales, accounting, tax issues etc.

You must have a marketing plan for cost of support and upgrades 5%.

You must have a "corporate" image that you will be around to support the
software and will continue to develop it into the foreseeable future. (If
they are meaningful, Autodesk and others will adopt your design concepts in
future versions of their software and you will have to stay in front of
them) 10%

You must have some level of security built into the software to limit the
ease of the unscrupulous using multiple copies of your program. 5%

You must have a support infrastructure in place. 10%

The percentage of your resources going into each component of the program
are indicated above. Note that they add up to about 165% and the actual
program itself is a trivial component of the overall exercise.

*** The installation program should detect the level of interest of the
person doing the installation and, if they display no interest, it should
stop and read out the content of the information they should be
understanding and ask then to make a 'real' decision, meanwhile video
recording the install and emailing the video back to your support database.

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
www.civil3Dtools.com

wrote in message news:5760915@discussion.autodesk.com...
I forgot to mention that I DO own this program. The company i created it at
waved legal rites to it. It is legally mine.

[Anonymous]

Hi Herman,

Under USA law the Company owned it, but the OP specifically said they had
passed their rights to him.

Under the laws in other countries, the Corporates do not always have the
same level of "grab-all' power and without examining that law you could not
possibly know who owns the software.

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
www.civil3Dtools.com
"Herman Mayfarth" wrote in message
news:5760979@discussion.autodesk.com...
If you wrote it on your employer's time, it belongs to them.

Period.

This topic has been discussed many times on this forum

[Anonymous]

"Herman Mayfarth" wrote

>> If you wrote it on your employer's time, it belongs to them.

>> Period.

He just said that his employer gave him ownership.


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[Anonymous]

OP's second post was not visible to me when I replied, otherwise I would
have said nothing