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I'm working hard now on trying to make my project sustainable: https://getpolarized.io/ https://getpolarized.io/ It's a weird situation as we're a desktop app
by burtonator 8y ago
I'm working hard now on trying to make my project sustainable:
https://getpolarized.io/ https://getpolarized.io/
It's a weird situation as we're a desktop app. Many Open Source users aren't used to paying for things but if you want good tools there needs to be a economic background.
I've started polling my users to ask WHY they aren't donating and I'm getting some interesting initial feedback.
So far "I didn't know how to donate" is apparently a big issue I have to resolve.
Additionally a top issue is that the user base doesn't feel the core feature set is there.
Now part of this might be bias. They might not want to support simply because they don't have money.
In the next month I'm going to be turning on monetization so this should be an interesting process.
- voltagex_ 8y agoYou don't have a visible donation button on the front page.
- goliatone 8y agoFYI I downloaded and installed your app when I saw it here on HN, didn’t work or I didn’t know how to use it.
- jammygit 8y agoI tried polar at one point and found that adding web pages was a bit clunky in terms of UX. I'm looking forward to trying it again in the future however since I love the premise. Have you considered scoping out a browser extension that would let you send polar a webpage with a single button click? I'm not sure what complications there would be getting firefox and polar to talk to each other, but maybe in conjunction with the sync feature it would be easier? Might give you a feature to charge for too since you it does afterall cost money to run servers edit - elaborated