My New Software is coming: The STUDIO Why not do this! Let's say your kick back from HDW is $30 per month from each HSH downloader. You could then take that $30 per month and say if you want to use Brisnet data files the cost in $30 per month or $360 for the year. You could even say if you pay for the year up front, you get a 10% discount and that's $324. I'm sure there are players that would go for that!
If a user pays for one month, after that month the software is locked until you pay for another month or for the year! — Mark
As the president of BRIS said to me 30 years ago, "You don't expect to make a living at this, do you?"
(He offered me a 5% split on the download fees.)
In order to justify investing $150,000 in software development, the cost would need to be $75 per month, plus an annual fee for new upgrades.
It just isn't investable as a business.
That's why the BRIS software is typically so poor.