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Re: Mmhmm

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Post by bnegreve »

ponker wrote: post #121
joshspankit wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this is one of the great cases for a “residential” vs “commercial” model. From a software dev perspective, I definitely understand the benefit of monthly/yearly subscriptions vs feast and famine cycles (with the hope that you can justify an upgrade to your users), but it.has.gotten.out.of.hand. Some of your best customers start out bootstrapping and becoming experts in the cheapest (workable) solution. If…

I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model. I’ve created something and am offering it to anyone who will pay what I’m asking. Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the value it creates for you? This product is expensive and I expect most people to walk away but I also see why they don’t want to go down the old Windows 3.1 route of a perpetual li…

>I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model.

I disagree, you need to sell your business model just as much as you need to sell your product.

As a customer,

1. I need to know whether this is a fair pricing for the service, because I need to decide whether I should pay for it, or search (or wait) for an alternative. If it is overpriced, a cheaper alternative is likely to appear soon, and it is probably better to wait.

2. I want don't want to encourage business models that don't fit my usage, to avoid the proliferation of such business models across the industry.

Re: Mmhmm

#142

Post by meheleventyone »

ponker wrote: post #121
joshspankit wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this is one of the great cases for a “residential” vs “commercial” model. From a software dev perspective, I definitely understand the benefit of monthly/yearly subscriptions vs feast and famine cycles (with the hope that you can justify an upgrade to your users), but it.has.gotten.out.of.hand. Some of your best customers start out bootstrapping and becoming experts in the cheapest (workable) solution. If…

I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model. I’ve created something and am offering it to anyone who will pay what I’m asking. Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the value it creates for you? This product is expensive and I expect most people to walk away but I also see why they don’t want to go down the old Windows 3.1 route of a perpetual li…

Price and in particular an on going cost factors into the value a product provides. Positioning in the market via pricing and other factors are as much part of selling your product as making sure people know what it does. Customers will have an opinion on it and it will be something worthwhile to understand in the large. Further if the pricing raises eyebrows customers will want a justification to feel good about buying.

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by theshrike79 »

For a one-time payment with a free trial, I would've definitely shelled money for this.

But a subscription? £10 a month? No thanks. _Maybe_ £5 max.

That price is competing with stuff like Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Netflix, HBO and many others that give me hours of entertainment every day.

Re: Mmhmm

#144

Post by laumars »

hedora wrote: post #97
Bishonen88 wrote: post #66

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in most cases, tools with subscriptions do not need more maintenance than products with a one-time purchase (don't know anything about this specific case, so dunno if it applies here). It's just that after adobe/jetbrains and others opened pandoras box, slowly but surely more and more devs try to make their tools to a continuous income stream... It get's really silly to the point that a snipping app has a yearly subs…

I recently installed dosbox on my rpi, and it made me seriously consider how hard it would be to modernize all that old software. Desktop apps were mostly better, and were all much faster on the rpi than native alternatives are on my recent $2700 laptop. Edit: modernize = app store for abandonware + docker-alike for dos instances.

GOG already does this for old games. But there’s a much bigger retro gaming following than there is a market sector for folk who just prefer older applications.

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by justforfunhere »

Just checked out the promo video on the webpage. It looks really well made. Congratulations to the team behind it.

This space is witnessing a lot of innovation and disruption and time is also ripe to do so.

Hoping to see AR/VR bring next wave of disruptions.

Re: Mmhmm

#146

Post by Liquid_Fire »

radley wrote: post #131
throwaway201103 wrote: post #57

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I guess I'm old too. Unless you're presenting to children, I'm not sure who wants this. Adding funny visual gags to your content isn't going to do much for me except make me annoyed with you. If you have something worthwhile or compelling to say, that will stand on its own.

The gags are placeholders for actual presentations. Essentially the service allows people to watch you and your presentation at the same time, which is superior to only one or the other. In time, it should allow you to present a more professional presentation. It's essentially the difference between 2010 & 2020 YouTube videos.

No thanks, I don't want to watch slides mangled by video compression tuned for a camera. I'd much rather see them through screen sharing, which is optimised for compressing on-screen content without making it look terrible.

This should just be a feature of Zoom, Teams, etc. And it probably is.

Re: Mmhmm

#147

Post by BorisTheBrave »

flixic wrote: post #23

I like this approach. Everything it does can be achieved by OBS with a couple of plugins, but this is a very user-friendly packaging of great looking presets: use cases over technology. Also, super fun name.

I've been looking for an OBS plugin that does greenscreen-less masking. Any suggestions?

Re: Mmhmm

#148

Post by nikanj »

klik99 wrote: post #99
qppo wrote: post #56

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Why do you need kernel extensions for realtime audio on Mac? If anything, CoreAudio is a dream to work with compared to the shitshow of APIs on Linux and Windows. Not to mention there are plenty of cross platform libraries for real time audio where you would never need to care about the difference.

Anything that needs to create input/output devices for routing into other apps “in the box” requires kernel extensions. I’ve heard some hack together more real time guarantees for performance purposes (mac os has a habit of regressing on audio stream stability) but most people who need that guarantee will build on an open source os anyway. CoreAudio is great, but since everyone just uses cross platform libraries will…

Big Sur doesn't even support kernel extensions, so this sounds unlikely.

Re: Mmhmm

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Post by klik99 »

nikanj wrote: post #148
klik99 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything that needs to create input/output devices for routing into other apps “in the box” requires kernel extensions. I’ve heard some hack together more real time guarantees for performance purposes (mac os has a habit of regressing on audio stream stability) but most people who need that guarantee will build on an open source os anyway. CoreAudio is great, but since everyone just uses cross platform libraries will…

Big Sur doesn't even support kernel extensions, so this sounds unlikely.

Quick google shows that subset of kexts still allowed. I updated to Big Sur last week and installed kernel extensions for exactly this reason.

Re: Mmhmm

#150

Post by dusted »

ponker wrote: post #121
joshspankit wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like this is one of the great cases for a “residential” vs “commercial” model. From a software dev perspective, I definitely understand the benefit of monthly/yearly subscriptions vs feast and famine cycles (with the hope that you can justify an upgrade to your users), but it.has.gotten.out.of.hand. Some of your best customers start out bootstrapping and becoming experts in the cheapest (workable) solution. If…

I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model. I’ve created something and am offering it to anyone who will pay what I’m asking. Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the value it creates for you? This product is expensive and I expect most people to walk away but I also see why they don’t want to go down the old Windows 3.1 route of a perpetual li…

"Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the value it creates for you?"

Because I am a human with feelings, and if I _feel_ I'm getting screwed, you can prove to me all day long how I'm actually saving money, it won't matter because I'll find something else where I feel treated right (not that that's that easy these days).

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