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Re: Hyprland Premium

#11

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/

Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#12

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

I clicked 3 different links failing at answering that question for myself and then I stopped caring, though not enough to pass up one-upping your comment.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#13
post #2

Great. If they can make some money out of this, why not? I wonder what happens if they lock down some features as premium-only. The competition is tight in this space and there are tons of alternatives to Hyprland, like Sway, River, etc. Monetizing open-source code sounds like a dangerous path...

Tiling window managers on Wayland still are pretty early sadly.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#14

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

If ypu have no idea you probably dont want it tough

Re: Hyprland Premium

#15
I'm a big fan of Hyprland and have made a Fedora Atomic based setup using it across multple devices. I migrated from a few years of using Manjaro Sway. It feels streamlined and I really like how clean the configuration is - keeping multiple machines operating the same is mostly just syncing .config/hypr

This reminds me that I've been meaning to donate, but this page feels... unfinished? The links don't work and there's no explanation of what you get from premium.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#16
post #11

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

This landing page also fails to properly describe anything I understand.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#17
This feels more like a wake-up call to make people donate for the products they use, which I'm all for.

I have no experience with owning a product but I assume that if donations don't succeed you have to opt for these methods

Re: Hyprland Premium

#18
post #3

What does "Premium Desktop Experience" actually mean?

I feel like they had to keep it in the incubator for a little longer but the idea of a zero config twm is a thing I could pay for if my config ever crashes and burns.

Beats being on Apple/Microsoft

Re: Hyprland Premium

#20
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

This landing page also fails to properly describe anything I understand.

It's sway with eye-candy. (Or, if you don't know about sway, the Wayland version of i3 — also with eye-candy).

If you're still not sure, you're simply not the target audience, these things almost always require further learning and customization, so some level of gate-keeping from the start is helpful.

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