Your comment snapped me out of the RAM-obliviousness in which I usually live and work. I know memory is plentiful on modern PCs, but 150 MB of RAM for a note-taking app!?
Its a note taking app that renders HTML. Arguably, this is an ideal case for an electron app. 150 MB for a internet connected, syncing, HTML rendering note app doesn't seem unreasonable to me
Markdown generates extremely basic HTML. Browsers twenty years old render Markdown output satisfactorily. This sort of application is the ideal place to use a webview provided by the host operating system.
The author here. > A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit That's interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it. But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources. This is not a startup. I would rather like to be small.
> A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit Eeesh. Be careful taking advice from someone who has no intention of paying now. You're doing a great job Takuya, keep on trucking.
> Be careful taking advice from someone who has no intention of paying now.
This applies to so many situations, could be a great advice for many product creators! Saving this one
Can anybody comment on the vim-keybindings plugin for Inkdrop. I've tried Notion, but I would really love a markdown/note-taking app with good vi-keybindings.
Basically all the comments here are just critiques. My 2 cents: excellent work, its extremely hard to stick with something for 3 years, especially with people's constant criticism and worries it isn't "big enough". The attitude of the developer seems quite wise and seasoned. Hearing things like "I'm making tools I use" and "I'd rather be small and opinionated" or "I'll take paying customers over droves of free users"…
Your note made me confront my own self-doubt. Time to dust off that old code-base
You don't need to get all the customers, you just have to find your customers.
As long as you find enough of them, you'll be ok.
You are wise to avoid trying to make an everything for everyone app. No one will want to use it.
I also sell my own software and I would pass along the following feedback: 1. Take breaks every now and then 2. People complaining about your software is good: that means they want to use it but something is preventing them from doing so. 3. Finally, don't do anything for free. Good luck :)
The author here. Thanks for the advice. Yeah, getting many complaints means that you are solving the right problem.
enjoy reading your blog.inkdrop.info. i think $5 a month is a right choice. wondering your primary customers are from japan or from non-japan users ?
Basically all the comments here are just critiques. My 2 cents: excellent work, its extremely hard to stick with something for 3 years, especially with people's constant criticism and worries it isn't "big enough". The attitude of the developer seems quite wise and seasoned. Hearing things like "I'm making tools I use" and "I'd rather be small and opinionated" or "I'll take paying customers over droves of free users"…
> Basically all the comments here are just critiques.
The market for markdown editors and note-takers is already saturated. Joplin appears to have all the features yours does and probably more, plus it is open source. There are a handful of other open source Markdown editors as well for note-taking that have most (if not more) of the features you are including. I don't know why anyone would pick a subscription service when they can get the same thing for free and have a…
If it is saturated (and by inference, unwanted), why do note taking apps consistently front-page? I can think of two possible reasons. One, there is no clear winner, and nobody has made the note taking app everyone _really_ wants. Or two, note apps are a bit like IDE's, where people use them all the time and subtle preferences mean a variety of apps doing the same thing is preferred.
well, the basic gold standard for note taking are GUI apps like evernote and onenote (their GUI works well). I guess upvoters are the people on HN using plain-text, expecting a real nice GUI for their plain-text-markup-files, only to find yet another text-editor based on electron and it's own sync-thing...
Basically all the comments here are just critiques. My 2 cents: excellent work, its extremely hard to stick with something for 3 years, especially with people's constant criticism and worries it isn't "big enough". The attitude of the developer seems quite wise and seasoned. Hearing things like "I'm making tools I use" and "I'd rather be small and opinionated" or "I'll take paying customers over droves of free users"…
Your note made me confront my own self-doubt. Time to dust off that old code-base
and good for you! I have so many projects that have never seen a customer but I spend time polishing and creating them anyway.
I don't build things for other people. I build them for myself. If someone buys it great, if not, it doesn't matter. I did this for myself.
In my note taking "system" (vim on a text file inside a GNU screen session) for work, I think I've only hit 1MB total for the last 10 years. If the OP is going to do a time-unlimited demo, it should be really small, like 5K or less. The point is the same: try it out for a little while, and see if it works for you.
Or maybe limit the number of notes that can be taken to 10 or 20.
Usage-based limits... "1000 edits..." similar to 'moom' I think which allows like 100 window resizes before it makes you pay.