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A price per drawing (or even a price per minute, since we encourage unlimited drawings) might make things more complicated for people too tho. As a user, I thin
by zhyder 18y ago
A price per drawing (or even a price per minute, since we encourage unlimited drawings) might make things more complicated for people too tho. As a user, I think I'd go mad constantly doing the math for how many cents the next few minutes are costing me.
Dabbleboard is not really meant to be something you'd use just once. If it's not something people would use regularly, then we probably just need to improve it further.
- tptacek 18y agoA lot of things that are great ideas that deserve continuous use are not instantaneously adopted by your customers; until they're adopted fully, the sponsor at those customers has to deal with the risk that they're requesting budget for something nobody's going to use. But, not criticizing; just giving a data point.
- zhyder 18y agoI know you're not criticizing, and I appreciate the feedback :). I'm hoping these would help with reducing the risk: 1. (Uncrippled) Free version 2. Ease of upgrade/downgrade/cancellation 3. 30-day-free-trial (not yet available) on the Pro versions The above is pretty standard faire among freemium apps. What makes Dabbleboard different from Basecamp et al (apart from 37s's incredible brand)?
- tptacek 18y agoI have exactly the same problem with Basecamp, which you can take in one of two ways: (1) "having the same issues as 37signals is one of those good problems to have" (2) "if this causes problems even for Basecamp prospects, maybe there's an issue with the model" We bought Basecamp a while ago, and while we haven't chucked it yet, we're not happy with the purchase, and knowing that we're dropping money on it every month doesn't make us more forgiving. Maybe you could do risk-free one month trial thing?
- tptacek 18y agoON THE OTHER HAND Maybe (in all seriousness) people like us are just the wrong customers for you at this moment, and there's 5,000 companies who will be less high-maintenance, and you should just write us off.
- zhyder 18y agoYep, I don't expect you (and other HNers) to be the right customers, but you're the best feedback-ers!
- ajkirwin 18y agoThis really should be a per-whiteboard, not "x amount of people".
- zhyder 18y agoOne of Dabbleboard's unique features is the personal library. We want to encourage users to save stuff to reuse later, and charging per drawing would go against that.