Why I am building a product with a tiny market
Regarding business model and monetizing, here are some ideas:<p>1. You could sell tutorials and ebooks on regexes. People who use your tool might want to understand why their regexes are not working.<p>2. You could license your debugging code/technology.<p>3. You could sell a corporate license to use your site. Corps’s regexes won't be shared publicly. Others might be. Corps paranoid about people stealing their regexes might be interested in your product.<p>4. You could ask for donations to support the site.<p>5. You could make it social. Have people vote on regexes. Have another complementary site where people contribute test-cases for common regexes like phone numbers, dates, email addresses. You could hold competitions in different categories.<p>6. You could offer a cloud-based regex parser. I know it sounds a bit absurd, but I want to throw this out there in case it leads to other neat ideas.<p>7. You could save regexes and have people vote them up. You could have discussion threads around regexes.