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You are asking him to do a ton of work and commit to never charging you for anything on the off chance that you might condescend to use his software. It seems l

You are asking him to do a ton of work and commit to never charging you for anything on the off chance that you might condescend to use his software. It seems like it would be easier for you to just not evaluate new mail clients.

DarwinMailApp 8y ago
It is so kind of you to defend my position. Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you understand as it can be difficult for a creator to explain such things :) I really appreciate it!
teleclimber 8y ago
I'm just suggesting that a service that touches email would benefit from being easier to trust. I never said he should commit to never making money or anything close to that. Like you literally invented that. In fact I suggested he look into the open source + hosted business model. Ghost seems to be doing alright with it: https://blog.ghost.org/5/ https://blog.ghost.org/5/ > It seems like it would be easier for you to just not evaluate new mail clients. There are plenty of OSS mail clients. I was just looking at RoundCube the other day. It's actually pretty slick as far as traditional email clients go. https://roundcube.net/ https://roundcube.net/
- DarwinMailApp 8y ago
  You have certainly given me plenty to think about. I thank you :) I love receiving new 'outside of the box' ideas that will increase DarwinMail's appeal :)
- 1123581321 8y ago
  You said “Yes, if you make it Open Source and possible to self-host it goes from DOA to definitely possible.[...] Hopefully you can still make a living. I suspect "open source + commercially hosted" is a good model for something like this?” That means that you would not consider using by it unless you could use it for free, presuming you wouldn’t qualify for a commercial license. I only summarized what you said.
  - DarwinMailApp 8y ago
    It can be difficult to make a living from your projects as an indie developer. Thank you for understanding :)

DarwinMailApp 8y ago

It is so kind of you to defend my position. Thank you so much. I'm so happy that you understand as it can be difficult for a creator to explain such things :) I really appreciate it!

teleclimber 8y ago

I'm just suggesting that a service that touches email would benefit from being easier to trust. I never said he should commit to never making money or anything close to that. Like you literally invented that. In fact I suggested he look into the open source + hosted business model. Ghost seems to be doing alright with it: https://blog.ghost.org/5/ https://blog.ghost.org/5/ > It seems like it would be easier for you to just not evaluate new mail clients. There are plenty of OSS mail clients. I was just looking at RoundCube the other day. It's actually pretty slick as far as traditional email clients go. https://roundcube.net/ https://roundcube.net/

DarwinMailApp 8y ago
You have certainly given me plenty to think about. I thank you :) I love receiving new 'outside of the box' ideas that will increase DarwinMail's appeal :)
1123581321 8y ago
You said “Yes, if you make it Open Source and possible to self-host it goes from DOA to definitely possible.[...] Hopefully you can still make a living. I suspect "open source + commercially hosted" is a good model for something like this?” That means that you would not consider using by it unless you could use it for free, presuming you wouldn’t qualify for a commercial license. I only summarized what you said.
- DarwinMailApp 8y ago
  It can be difficult to make a living from your projects as an indie developer. Thank you for understanding :)