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Re: Basecamp Personal

#11

It would be a shame to see people sink their money in this without realizing there are way better services out there for this type of thing. For example, Evernote Premium is just $5.00 per month or $45.00 per year and you get way better features, syncing across platforms, storage space, sharing, etc. That [Evernote example] costs less than 2 Basecamp Personal projects. I really think they should look into lowering th…

$25/forever is already lower than $5/month or $45/year

Re: Basecamp Personal

#12

It would be a shame to see people sink their money in this without realizing there are way better services out there for this type of thing. For example, Evernote Premium is just $5.00 per month or $45.00 per year and you get way better features, syncing across platforms, storage space, sharing, etc. That [Evernote example] costs less than 2 Basecamp Personal projects. I really think they should look into lowering th…

I don't believe that 37 is attempting to go for the mass market. At least not yet. This is more for current Basecamp users that are used to an interface and quality they know and expect.

I love Evernote but I don't use it for to-do's or projects. There are plenty of other alternatives that work well in sharing personal projects as well.

Re: Basecamp Personal

#14
post #11

It would be a shame to see people sink their money in this without realizing there are way better services out there for this type of thing. For example, Evernote Premium is just $5.00 per month or $45.00 per year and you get way better features, syncing across platforms, storage space, sharing, etc. That [Evernote example] costs less than 2 Basecamp Personal projects. I really think they should look into lowering th…

$25/forever is already lower than $5/month or $45/year

If a project lasts forever than paying or doing anything for that matter, even if it was free, is useless.

Re: Basecamp Personal

#16
post #11

It would be a shame to see people sink their money in this without realizing there are way better services out there for this type of thing. For example, Evernote Premium is just $5.00 per month or $45.00 per year and you get way better features, syncing across platforms, storage space, sharing, etc. That [Evernote example] costs less than 2 Basecamp Personal projects. I really think they should look into lowering th…

$25/forever is already lower than $5/month or $45/year

Evernote has a free version also that has even more functionality than Basecamp Personal. I'm not saying Evernote is the perfect alternative, that was just an example of many.

I guess I'm just getting to the point that there is lots of alternatives out there that give much more value for a better price. I feel like 37signals is trying to sell products just because of their name and are no longer put real value in their products. Or at least putting enough value in to justify the price tag associated with their newest products.

Re: Basecamp Personal

#17
This seems like a great price point for a freelancer doing small projects. You could just charge the $25 straight to the client. However it looks like they don't have a unified dashboard for the personal edition so it might be a pain if you had a few of these running concurrently.

Re: Basecamp Personal

#19
post #3

On a semi-related note, I always thought this was a clever use of GitHub: https://github.com/frabcus/house

my first thought was "Oh god, the comments will be full of half funny spam" ... looks like he's actually has some good discussion on them though https://github.com/frabcus/house/issues/66

Re: Basecamp Personal

#20
post #7

I'm interested to see what direction they head with these one-time-cost plans. If you like BaseCamp and would derive any value from it, $25 is a really good deal -- I don't see "free" as being all that much more attractive.

I was going to say the same thing.

It's very interesting to follow their new tendency to release one-time-fee softwares for consumers. Hope they talk about public reception on their blog.

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