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Oo, some honest angel actually bought the more expensive Professional license for SUDS Pro on Fab yesterday. I initially didn't add a Pro tier for the Fab launch (when it became an option), thinking it might over-complicate things, but after seeing everyone else doing it I quickly reconsidered. I wasn't sure anyone would pick it, but it does make sense to have a tier for a shared multi-person license for better funded folks.
That's a nice Friday bonus, thanks to whoever that was 
I initially didn't add the Pro tier because I thought it might give people a headache, like I'm indie now but what if I get funding later, that sort of thing. There's a kind of unwritten rule that I always say you can use one license of SUDS Pro even if you're on a small team, no per-seat faffing about, I don't want anyone to have to do that. But on reconsideration, for larger teams it's nice they can opt in to reflect that
People say you have to be cutthroat in business but I disagree. I think you only need to be cutthroat if you mostly deal with other people who are also like that. While the sharks are out tearing pieces off each other, I've been able to make a decent living interacting with mostly nice folks through mutual understanding and fair dealing. I might just have been stupendously lucky, but I'm not sure - I think fair dealing attracts fair dealers, and the opposite is also true.
@sinbad Years ago when we were selling Chipmunk 2D Pro, we also had a “Studio” version. It offered a bit more support promises, but mostly people seemed to pay for it because they loved what we did and wanted to support us back.
We also had an appropriately priced “enterprise” version. We even sold one! That was a good day. :)
@slembcke Awesome :)
You have to be cuthroat if you want an insane amount of money that will automatically make your whole existence unethical and somehow fry your brain. I think that's what people are referring to ;)
@sinbad depends on the market, I would say.
@sinbad @laprice From my early childhood experiences with my parents running businesses in both the manufacturing and retail ends of the craft and hobby industry (pre-big box stores) and from my more recent experiences as a writer in sci-fi and nonfiction ghostwriting and editing, I noticed that there are whole industries where competitors are friendly and very willing to help each other out. I wonder what factors lead to some industries being more cooperative?
@sinbad What I think, and what I have thought for a while, is that the billionaire sociopaths say that being greedy and ruthless is “human nature” in order to normalize their own pathological behavior
摏 @sinbad I have pissed off more than one shark by telling them that I only work with people looking for a win-win, so they can take a hike. It really bugs them because they implicitly are the loser in that exchange.
@sinbad @artcollisions
There's a difference between not letting people take advantage of you and taking advantage of them. That goes for all kinds of relationships.
@sinbad there's also the tier of businesses who just think that if a product or service is "too cheap", it isn't any good. There's an art to pricing your thing to appeal to the person looking at it, and sometimes that's about increasing it, however absurd that sounds. Just having that more expensive offering probably gets you sales from people who wouldn't otherwise buy it at all.
@sinbad Thank you! Business does not have to be a race to see who can enshittify fastest. It's a choice.