Had me interested enough to look at the App store and then I saw a bunch of in-app purchases are required for full functionality. Lost interest at that point. Would rather just pay for an app and not have to worry about unlocking features.
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#12Had me interested enough to look at the App store and then I saw a bunch of in-app purchases are required for full functionality. Lost interest at that point. Would rather just pay for an app and not have to worry about unlocking features.
The base functionality is free. In app purchases enable annotations and other more specialized features.
Would you say most people prefer paying for an app upfront rather than pay per feature?
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#13Had me interested enough to look at the App store and then I saw a bunch of in-app purchases are required for full functionality. Lost interest at that point. Would rather just pay for an app and not have to worry about unlocking features.
The base functionality is free. In app purchases enable annotations and other more specialized features. Would you say most people prefer paying for an app upfront rather than pay per feature?
Definitely, especially for a business focused app like this.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The base functionality is free. In app purchases enable annotations and other more specialized features. Would you say most people prefer paying for an app upfront rather than pay per feature?
Definitely, especially for a business focused app like this.
Ok. Makes sense.
Truth is, we're not really pushing for monetization right now, it was more of a try out with the in-apps.
Maybe, at our stage, power users working with the full app are more valuable than the earnings from a bunch of purchases.
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#15From only reading the site, my guess is that the product allows you to select a rectangle, and whatever apps' window surface is in that layer stays there. So I could highlight the bottom 40px of my slack window and those bottom 40px would always be visible and updating even if I open another window over the "snap".
That's how I'm reading it. If that's actually true, that's pretty compelling. A "bring to front" of any portion of any app that keeps it live.
If not, then either I'm way off base or the site isn't clarifying the purpose behind keeping a snap "floating" - why is that a marketable point?
Edit: typo and clarification on final question
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#16I just went to the site and looked at it. Your demo is confusing and not very communicative to me. Even after seeing it I couldn't figure out what you were trying to communicate with it. I think you'd do better to have a video demo showing a specific use case, and explaining better how it works. Also, Facebook sdk is complaining about an invalid app id. BTW -- I am on a mac using chrome on the site, if that helps as…
No, I don't want video. Tell it to me in simple words and pictures.
I have two complaints about video: 1) I don't want to enable JavaScript or use Flash. Most video fails one of those. 2) I don't want to spend the time to watch a video. Tell me in words and pictures, in less than a minute. I.e. an "elevator pitch".
I'm absolutely astonished at how many companies have horrible websites. In many cases I can go to Wikipedia and learn much more about a company, much faster, than from that company's website.
Major FAIL!
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#17There's one million apps that do what yours do. Tell me in one sentence why I should use yours (+ an explainer video maybe?)
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely, especially for a business focused app like this.
Ok. Makes sense. Truth is, we're not really pushing for monetization right now, it was more of a try out with the in-apps. Maybe, at our stage, power users working with the full app are more valuable than the earnings from a bunch of purchases.
You'll also get more detailed feedback from them, meaningful bug reports, etc.