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Let me ask you a question before answering. Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years or do you believe this is feature co

Let me ask you a question before answering. Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years or do you believe this is feature complete? > who prefer perpetual licenses, is this because of a perceived lower total cost? Or for some other reason? For me, it's knowing that I'll have access to the software forever, but if I want to continue to get valuable enhancements, I keep paying. This is for me, the individual. When it's for a company, I truthfully care about that a lot less, next to nill, but care more about support, invoicing, SLAs, etc... I have IntelliJ Ultimate at home and pay for it every year, but it gives me piece of mind knowing that if something happens, it's still "mine", but just doesn't get any new bells and whistles. Every place I go to, guess what I develop with? IntelliJ. If they don't have it for me already, they will within the week.

victor106 3y ago
> Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years or do you believe this is feature complete? This is an excellent question. Not just for this particular case but for anyone planning on releasing subscription SaaS or app
- eirikbakke 3y ago
  > Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years Yes, absolutely. The current release marks the productization of a long backlog of features that were previously developed only to the prototype stage--due to the project's origin as an academic research project. With that now done, I'm hoping to (1) establish a sustainable business model, based on the current product, to fund future development, and then (2) start a big engineering effort to really develop Ultorg as an alternative to Excel and custom-made CRUD apps. (You'll see a lot of VC-funded startups with similar goals. Inventing the "killer app" that lies in the space between Excel and a relational database is one of the software industry's holy grails. But there are some technological breakthroughs required that existing products didn't manage to crack, despite a lot of money poured into the problem.)

victor106 3y ago

> Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years or do you believe this is feature complete? This is an excellent question. Not just for this particular case but for anyone planning on releasing subscription SaaS or app

eirikbakke 3y ago
> Question: Do you plan to implement valuable enhancements over the coming years Yes, absolutely. The current release marks the productization of a long backlog of features that were previously developed only to the prototype stage--due to the project's origin as an academic research project. With that now done, I'm hoping to (1) establish a sustainable business model, based on the current product, to fund future development, and then (2) start a big engineering effort to really develop Ultorg as an alternative to Excel and custom-made CRUD apps. (You'll see a lot of VC-funded startups with similar goals. Inventing the "killer app" that lies in the space between Excel and a relational database is one of the software industry's holy grails. But there are some technological breakthroughs required that existing products didn't manage to crack, despite a lot of money poured into the problem.)