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One last thought - I see the 'Gantt Chart' box on your front page. This is possibly one of those subsets-of-users-more-willing-to-pay I mentioned: workers or te

by nudge 16y ago

One last thought - I see the 'Gantt Chart' box on your front page. This is possibly one of those subsets-of-users-more-willing-to-pay I mentioned: workers or teams in need of a quick gantt chart to plan their work. Last time I looked for a quick way to make a gantt chart I found nothing good - your app looks like it could do it really well. Plus then you've got professionals, who are generally more likely to pay. It might be worth you having a whole separate page for business use. If I ran a team of workers and wanted a gantt chart for our work, and put X minutes/hours into creating it (dozens of sub-projects) in your app, and then you asked me for $29 to keep it, I'd pay, no question.

matt1 16y ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I think you're right in that I need to do a better job at addressing the pain points. One of the interesting dilemmas about it is that people are using the app for many different uses, which is great, but it makes it hard to sell to a specific audience. You might be right in that I need a business section, similar to what I think RescueTime does. I'm not sure about charging folks to keep their data from disappearing though. As a user, I think I'd get really frustrated with an app that did that. It's kind of like ransoming off the user's data, isn't it? Bingo Card Creator has been a big inspiration for me. That's where the $29 price came from. Again, appreciate it.
- nudge 16y ago
  You're right. I didn't express it very well, but my point was really about where you choose to cut people out of your premium offering. As it stands, you're doing it 'on the way in', as it were, i.e. while people are entering data. I was suggesting you do it 'on the way out', i.e. when people have taken the time and effort to build something for themselves using your app, and now want to do something with the timeline. That's separable from the question of how to actually make the cut-off (and deleting data, as you suggest, may be too brutal) But anyway, it's just thinking out loud rather than a definite suggestion.

by nudge 16y ago

matt1 16y ago

Hey, thanks for the feedback. I think you're right in that I need to do a better job at addressing the pain points. One of the interesting dilemmas about it is that people are using the app for many different uses, which is great, but it makes it hard to sell to a specific audience. You might be right in that I need a business section, similar to what I think RescueTime does. I'm not sure about charging folks to keep their data from disappearing though. As a user, I think I'd get really frustrated with an app that did that. It's kind of like ransoming off the user's data, isn't it? Bingo Card Creator has been a big inspiration for me. That's where the $29 price came from. Again, appreciate it.

nudge 16y ago
You're right. I didn't express it very well, but my point was really about where you choose to cut people out of your premium offering. As it stands, you're doing it 'on the way in', as it were, i.e. while people are entering data. I was suggesting you do it 'on the way out', i.e. when people have taken the time and effort to build something for themselves using your app, and now want to do something with the timeline. That's separable from the question of how to actually make the cut-off (and deleting data, as you suggest, may be too brutal) But anyway, it's just thinking out loud rather than a definite suggestion.