Lots of features never make it into software because the developers themselves don't need it. You could make it really easy for users to say to developers "If I can get 20 other people to pay $100/ea will you implement this feature?"
Let them create really simple polls, without much registration or anything. Pretty informal. Maybe a "stage 1" poll and then move to a payment-verified "stage 2" poll if there was a good response for the informal poll.
I think the 1000 x $5 is not realistic. Most of the time when I need something created it's for a business and I have hundreds/thousands of dollars to available. I've underwritten projects for tens of thousands of dollars and would love to share the load. I'd go for a smaller number of bigger buyers, even if it seems less interesting. Business-related software because consumers are cheap bastards.
Let them create really simple polls, without much registration or anything. Pretty informal. Maybe a "stage 1" poll and then move to a payment-verified "stage 2" poll if there was a good response for the informal poll.
I think the 1000 x $5 is not realistic. Most of the time when I need something created it's for a business and I have hundreds/thousands of dollars to available. I've underwritten projects for tens of thousands of dollars and would love to share the load. I'd go for a smaller number of bigger buyers, even if it seems less interesting. Business-related software because consumers are cheap bastards.