just curious: do you make any real money with the products you offer on ardfry.com? Not that a good png compression isn't useful, but I think that most people today just dont think about that because internet speed increases so fast. I may be totally wrong, therefore the question.
Sebastian
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Re: you make any money with ardfry
Sebastian said
Hallo Ken
just curious: do you make any real money with the products you offer on ardfry.com? Not that a good png compression isn't useful, but I think that most people today just dont think about that because internet speed increases so fast. I may be totally wrong, therefore the question.
Sebastian
Dear Sebastian,
Ken pointed me to your message.
Ardfry Imaging, LLC, is privately held and we don't disclose financial details.
I won't deny that we are focused on a niche with our current product offerings.
Website optimization is very important to high traffic web sites. For a point of reference, you can look at the traffic on www.websiteoptimization.com in Alexa.
For sites that have high traffic volumes, the software will more than pay for itself. It's not just about speed: there is a real return on investment in saved bandwidth costs.
Another niche is in J2ME software. PNG is common in J2ME games, and many of our customers face hard limits on their JAR sizes from operators. Saving a few bytes can make or break a deal.
There is also the issue of convenience. You can fit many more PNG images on a USB drive than with TIFF. When space is constrained and there can be no loss of image quality, then PNG optimization is very important.
All that said, Ardfry is about much more than the PNGOUT product line. These are just the first products of many.
Frobozz at
David said
I won't deny that we are focused on a niche with our current product offerings.
Website optimization is very important to high traffic web sites. For a point of reference, you can look at the traffic on www.websiteoptimization.com in Alexa.
For sites that have high traffic volumes, the software will more than pay for itself. It's not just about speed: there is a real return on investment in saved bandwidth costs.
Another niche is in J2ME software. PNG is common in J2ME games, and many of our customers face hard limits on their JAR sizes from operators. Saving a few bytes can make or break a deal.
How is it going to make you any money? Anyone with any sense would grab Irfanview and simply use that. Not to mention Irfanview can batch jobs just as well as your tool would. Who cares if it uses multiple threads to speed it up, just run it overnight. I seriously doubt you're going to make much from this.
I sure haven't heard of you except on here. So if you do anything, you might want to advertise in some fashion. :lol:
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Customer feedback
Hiya 'Frobozz',
I'm someone who hopefully has some 'sense', but decided to purchase POW instead of using Irfanview (the plugin is cumbersome and lacks some of the higher compression options). Furthermore, I purchased it even though I'd been sent a free copy for my beta-testing feedback. This is a very handy tool with a very low price tag. Please try to be more constructive and less cutting in your comments! As my grandad always said: "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"... :-)
I wish Ardfry all the best with their future enterprises.
Regards,
Andrew
PS- To state the obvious, I have no connection to Ardfry or any of its agents.
psychorosti at
you make any money with ardfry
Hi Frobozz,
i personally don't think this is the only reason for buying a product - to just have running it - somehow.
Its also about a buisness between two partners. And if one (most propably the customer) has a specific problem with it you (most times with "the product") he relies on fast help in a specified/limited timespan. And this is, for most times, critical to any "paying" user, and also the biggest advantage over any other sort of userstatus, too.
You may don't need it. Hey, that's fine!
But when you are in a high end development with highly critical ressource plans you simply wont put confidence on any product that does not have any support included. And to fill this gap, a David explained, is what Ardfry is aiming for.
Hope iam not totally wrong with my assumptations :roll: ...