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We had been throwing around the idea of creating a quick demo that doesn't require signing up and doesn't persist your data. Recently we decided that we wouldn'
by extantproject 16y ago
We had been throwing around the idea of creating a quick demo that doesn't require signing up and doesn't persist your data. Recently we decided that we wouldn't implement that for now because we consider it a feature that your data persists in one place and want the trial to be full-featured. We also didn't want anyone to be confused about whether the data gets saved ("so I put some stuff in Atombox and now it's gone?").
I like your idea of persisting the data and using a URL as an access key, though. I hadn't thought of that.
Do you think a screencast would be sufficient to get people over the initial stand-off of not wanting to sign up?
Thanks!
- limmeau 16y agoA screencast is better than nothing, but for me, nothing beats being able to toy around with your user interface to get a first-hand impression of how fun it is to use, especially if the webapp is some wiki-todo-crossover. Perhaps you could offer a read-only view of an example collection?
- extantproject 16y agoI understand. I like being able to try things out too. I think you're right: we'll have to make some sort of interactive demo. You said above that your biggest hesitation to signing up for a trial is that it's $5/month afterwards. Do you think you would have had less hesitation if we were doing something like this? free: full-featured up to 128 atoms, with sign-up $5/month: full-featured up to some reasonable limit on atoms (on the order of hundreds of thousands, a practical limit to guard against abuse)
- limmeau 16y agoProbably less hesitation, yes.
- extantproject 16y agoThat's fair enough. Thanks for your help.