Avalonia Accelerate represents a strategic evolution in our product offering, designed to enhance developer productivity while ensuring the sustainable growth of our platform. Born from our understanding of communities needs and market opportunities, this initiative aims to provide additional value to our extensive user base while maintaining our commitment to an open-core business model.Market ContextWith an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 developers actively building applications with Avalonia in 2024, we've witnessed tremendous adoption of our open-source platform. While this growth validates our technical approach, it also presents an opportunity to provide additional value through premium tools and features that can significantly enhance developer productivity.
Product Strategy
Avalonia Accelerate is a comprehensive suite of productivity tools that complement our core platform. These tools address common pain points and workflow inefficiencies we've observed across our user base. From visual designers and enhanced debugging capabilities to platform-specific optimizations, each component has been carefully chosen to deliver tangible productivity gains.
Release Strategy
We're implementing a phased release approach beginning in early 2025, with features grouped into three distinct phases. This strategy allows us to deliver value incrementally while gathering user feedback and refining our offering. Each phase introduces new capabilities, with early adopters benefiting from preferential pricing that remains locked in until all phases are complete.
Pricing Structure
Our initial pricing model is designed to be accessible while reflecting the value provided:
Indie Tier (€89/year subscription):
Aimed at individual developers and small teams
Full access to all Accelerate features
Subscription-based for sustainable updates
Business Tier (€149 perpetual):
Designed for professional development teams
Perpetual license
Enterprise Tier (€499 perpetual):
Aimed at large organizations
Access to UI controls source code
Business Impact
Avalonia Accelerate is central to our 2025 growth strategy. Revenue generated through this initiative will directly fund our expanded development team, enabling us to accelerate both our premium offerings and core platform improvements. This virtuous cycle ensures that both our open-source and commercial users benefit from increased investment in the platform.
Team Expansion
To deliver on the Accelerate roadmap, we're significantly expanding our development team in 2025. This hiring initiative focuses on bringing in specialized talent to maintain our ambitious release schedule while ensuring our core platform continues to evolve and improve.
Avalonia Accelerate represents a strategic evolution in our product offering, designed to enhance developer productivity while ensuring the sustainable growth of our platform. Born from our understanding of communities needs and market opportunities, this initiative aims to provide additional value to our extensive user base while maintaining our commitment to an open-core business model.Market ContextWith an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 developers actively building applications with Avalonia in 2024, we've witnessed tremendous adoption of our open-source platform. While this growth validates our technical approach, it also presents an opportunity to provide additional value through premium tools and features that can significantly enhance developer productivity.
Product Strategy
Avalonia Accelerate is a comprehensive suite of productivity tools that complement our core platform. These tools address common pain points and workflow inefficiencies we've observed across our user base. From visual designers and enhanced debugging capabilities to platform-specific optimizations, each component has been carefully chosen to deliver tangible productivity gains.
Release Strategy
We're implementing a phased release approach beginning in early 2025, with features grouped into three distinct phases. This strategy allows us to deliver value incrementally while gathering user feedback and refining our offering. Each phase introduces new capabilities, with early adopters benefiting from preferential pricing that remains locked in until all phases are complete.
Pricing Structure
Our initial pricing model is designed to be accessible while reflecting the value provided:
Indie Tier (€89/year subscription):
Aimed at individual developers and small teams
Full access to all Accelerate features
Subscription-based for sustainable updates
Business Tier (€149 perpetual):
Designed for professional development teams
Perpetual license
Enterprise Tier (€499 perpetual):
Aimed at large organizations
Access to UI controls source code
Business Impact
Avalonia Accelerate is central to our 2025 growth strategy. Revenue generated through this initiative will directly fund our expanded development team, enabling us to accelerate both our premium offerings and core platform improvements. This virtuous cycle ensures that both our open-source and commercial users benefit from increased investment in the platform.
Team Expansion
To deliver on the Accelerate roadmap, we're significantly expanding our development team in 2025. This hiring initiative focuses on bringing in specialized talent to maintain our ambitious release schedule while ensuring our core platform continues to evolve and improve.
Avalonia Accelerate represents a strategic evolution in our product offering, designed to enhance developer productivity while ensuring the sustainable growth of our platform. Born from our understanding of communities needs and market opportunities, this initiative aims to provide additional value to our extensive user base while maintaining our commitment to an open-core business model.Market ContextWith an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 developers actively building applications with Avalonia in 2024, we've witnessed tremendous adoption of our open-source platform. While this growth validates our technical approach, it also presents an opportunity to provide additional value through premium tools and features that can significantly enhance developer productivity.
Product Strategy
Avalonia Accelerate is a comprehensive suite of productivity tools that complement our core platform. These tools address common pain points and workflow inefficiencies we've observed across our user base. From visual designers and enhanced debugging capabilities to platform-specific optimizations, each component has been carefully chosen to deliver tangible productivity gains.
Release Strategy
We're implementing a phased release approach beginning in early 2025, with features grouped into three distinct phases. This strategy allows us to deliver value incrementally while gathering user feedback and refining our offering. Each phase introduces new capabilities, with early adopters benefiting from preferential pricing that remains locked in until all phases are complete.
Pricing Structure
Our initial pricing model is designed to be accessible while reflecting the value provided:
Indie Tier (€89/year subscription):
Aimed at individual developers and small teams
Full access to all Accelerate features
Subscription-based for sustainable updates
Business Tier (€149 perpetual):
Designed for professional development teams
Perpetual license
Enterprise Tier (€499 perpetual):
Aimed at large organizations
Access to UI controls source code
Business Impact
Avalonia Accelerate is central to our 2025 growth strategy. Revenue generated through this initiative will directly fund our expanded development team, enabling us to accelerate both our premium offerings and core platform improvements. This virtuous cycle ensures that both our open-source and commercial users benefit from increased investment in the platform.
Team Expansion
To deliver on the Accelerate roadmap, we're significantly expanding our development team in 2025. This hiring initiative focuses on bringing in specialized talent to maintain our ambitious release schedule while ensuring our core platform continues to evolve and improve.