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If it takes you 40 work hours to evaluate a product then it must be a tool that is central to your workflow, but in that case you're going to have to evaluate i
by tgflynn 4y ago
If it takes you 40 work hours to evaluate a product then it must be a tool that is central to your workflow, but in that case you're going to have to evaluate it somehow whether, it's free, free trial or paid.
- PaulHoule 4y agoYes, and that has all sorts of implications for why marketing can be so hard. Imagine that somebody expects to evaluate 4 products, either because the first 3 won't make the cut, or because they won't feel like they did enough "due diligence". It may be a safer bet to develop something in house than to spend a lot of time evaluating alternatives. All of the alternative products have a lot more development time in them, but odds are you don't need all the features those products have, UI refinement, etc. You don't have to worry that a vendor will be bought by Google.
- tgflynn 4y agoAh, yes, I see what you mean. That's probably one reason software developers (at least experienced ones) tend not to make good customers.