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It's £6 per month if you pay yearly. Also if you are a student you can get a 50% discount. Honestly it costs a negligible amount, that's less than a single day'

It's £6 per month if you pay yearly. Also if you are a student you can get a 50% discount. Honestly it costs a negligible amount, that's less than a single day's worth of travel on the tube.

renw0rp 5y ago
I just wanted to say that you could try a bit harder to justify the price rather than just saying it's "negligible". I think that's very subjective and I personally don't think it's a reasonable price to pay for just storing markdown files in the cloud.
- liampmccabe 5y ago
  "just storing markdown files" Ironically you could do the same with your replies.
  - samhw 5y ago
    Yeah, I 100% agree. It's rather tonedeaf to criticise that commenter for diminishing the cost, and then diminish in exactly the same way the work involved in creating this. And I'm so tired of the game of "describe a successful tech product in a way that makes it sound silly". Yeah, Twitter is just storing a load of VARCHAR(240)s, and Facebook is just an undirected graph, and Jackson Pollock's paintings are just splatters, etc. I could build it myself! Except... I don't, because it's not that easy, and I know it isn't when I think about it for more than 1.7 seconds.
    - renw0rp 5y ago
      Storing, updating and deleting varchars is what most of enterprise and startup developers do for living. It can't be that hard.
      - samhw 5y ago
        Sure, in which case you're welcome to build every tool yourself. Me, I'll carry on doing what I specialise in for a living, and use a trivial crumb of my earnings to pay someone else for lovingly-made readymade products. Same way I do for my WiFi router, for my readymade mac & cheese, etc. viz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
- WaltonGoggins 5y ago
  Sure I can but I didn't think it was necessary. I used to hand-write my notes, filling a £10 moleskine journal every month or so. Supernotes saves me £4 per month and I get the benefits of all of it's features.
  - dmonitor 5y ago
    Supernotes is competing with more than just pen/paper
croes 5y ago
Many neglible amounts are a large amount.
Cthulhu_ 5y ago
I don't travel on the tube though, or pay for Starbucks, or whatever analogy you're trying to come up with. My current note taking solution - a folder with .md files - is free. What's the compelling argument for this app? Granted, it's really difficult to compete with free, and the note taking space is probably one of the most saturated software markets there is.
- WaltonGoggins 5y ago
  You have no outgoings? Then sure, it's hard for me to suggest a comparison to you. I'm not sure it's up to me to suggest an analogy that works for every user on the internet however, pick something that you spend money on regularly.

It's £6 per month if you pay yearly. Also if you are a student you can get a 50% discount. Honestly it costs a negligible amount, that's less than a single day's worth of travel on the tube.

renw0rp 5y ago

I just wanted to say that you could try a bit harder to justify the price rather than just saying it's "negligible". I think that's very subjective and I personally don't think it's a reasonable price to pay for just storing markdown files in the cloud.

liampmccabe 5y ago
"just storing markdown files" Ironically you could do the same with your replies.
- samhw 5y ago
  Yeah, I 100% agree. It's rather tonedeaf to criticise that commenter for diminishing the cost, and then diminish in exactly the same way the work involved in creating this. And I'm so tired of the game of "describe a successful tech product in a way that makes it sound silly". Yeah, Twitter is just storing a load of VARCHAR(240)s, and Facebook is just an undirected graph, and Jackson Pollock's paintings are just splatters, etc. I could build it myself! Except... I don't, because it's not that easy, and I know it isn't when I think about it for more than 1.7 seconds.
  - renw0rp 5y ago
    Storing, updating and deleting varchars is what most of enterprise and startup developers do for living. It can't be that hard.
    - samhw 5y ago
      Sure, in which case you're welcome to build every tool yourself. Me, I'll carry on doing what I specialise in for a living, and use a trivial crumb of my earnings to pay someone else for lovingly-made readymade products. Same way I do for my WiFi router, for my readymade mac & cheese, etc. viz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
WaltonGoggins 5y ago
Sure I can but I didn't think it was necessary. I used to hand-write my notes, filling a £10 moleskine journal every month or so. Supernotes saves me £4 per month and I get the benefits of all of it's features.
- dmonitor 5y ago
  Supernotes is competing with more than just pen/paper

croes 5y ago

Many neglible amounts are a large amount.

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

I don't travel on the tube though, or pay for Starbucks, or whatever analogy you're trying to come up with. My current note taking solution - a folder with .md files - is free. What's the compelling argument for this app? Granted, it's really difficult to compete with free, and the note taking space is probably one of the most saturated software markets there is.

WaltonGoggins 5y ago
You have no outgoings? Then sure, it's hard for me to suggest a comparison to you. I'm not sure it's up to me to suggest an analogy that works for every user on the internet however, pick something that you spend money on regularly.