[thelist] Making A Spreadsheet Macro a Product

Luther, Ron ron.luther at hp.com
Tue Sep 9 16:52:42 CDT 2003


Norman Bunn asked:

>>I built a macro in Excel that does what he wants.  ... he is now so pleased 
>>with the results that he would like to look into selling it to other 
>>dealerships.  

Hi Norman,

There are certainly a lot of interesting niches out there!

Personally, I think the business side questions would be easier to address 
if you could turn this into a 'service' rather than a 'product'.  
{The part that scares me on the 'product' side is that it sounds like 
whether your tool works or not is dependent on whether the manufacturer 
reformats their website or not.  If it breaks because of things outside 
of your control then the customer who bought your 'product' two years ago 
got more value than the customer who bought it two days ago -- yet you're 
going to have to argue terms with both of them.}

>>- the macro is password protected, but how secure is that?

This is the one I think I might be able to help with.  Check out the forums 
at my buddy Bill's site http://www.mrexcel.com/  There should be information 
there somewhere on how easy/hard it is to 'recover' a password protected 
macro.


HTH,

RonL.



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