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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 wish you good luck with your project and hope it will work.
Congratulations on the success! Your business is very inspirational to me. Thank you for all the great posts.
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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.
> free riders will come eat the server resources that's not the way to address a user whether paid or "free rider" as you call them.
"In the social sciences, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods, or services of a communal nature do not pay for them.[1] Free riders are a problem because while not paying for the good, they may continue to access it. Thus, the good may be under-produced, overused or degraded"[0]
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> My problem is that phones are just too slow for me to fire up and start a note How so? Is your phone really old and slow or something? On my iPhone X it takes two touches from the home screen to get into the notes app (first touch) and start a new note (second touch), and this takes about two seconds (I measured the time). Not counting the touches or time taken to unlock the phone and to get to the home screen but…
Slow in the sense of “idea->Search for app->Open app->new note->type on screen” vs “idea->alt tab to terminal->type on keyboard.” It’s probably only 2 seconds vs 1 second. Not a huge time amount.
But whatever works, if you prefer to lose an idea because it’s “faster” to wait until you’re at a keyboard, it’s your life.
Or just keep a physical notebook of some kind with you. That’s faster than any digital method for just capturing an idea.
I really like the project but I struggle with the fact that almost all Markdown editors, even note-taking applications, only offer you a rendered view separately from the file you edit. When I am taking notes, they should be rendered where I type them down in order to be easily digestible. Even later on, I will probably make a few smaller edits, so I can't solely rely on the rendered review. So far, I've only discove…
I use NotePlan on my phone for WYSIWYM notes and calendar entries, with GTD support. It used the same (Dropbox) directory as my Kiwi app, which is a personal wiki with WYSIWYM.
On my desktop I have Sublime text with a (free) markdown plug-in for WYSIWYM note creation, and I keep the open “project” my NotePlan/Kiwi folder.
The result is a sprawling set of notes, documents, calendar data, etc inside a single wiki, editable from anywhere, and no one owns my data because at the end of the day it’s really just a bunch of text documents sitting in a Dropbox folder on my PC.
It has replaced all of my calendar, to-do, and notekeeping tools. Frankly, if NotePlan devs wanted to, they could probably subsume “personal wiki” too - the core functionality is already there, I just find the kiwi UI a little more suited to it.
Just signed up for a Standard Notes subscription today. How does this compare? Seems they are both e2e encrypted with Markdown and code highlighting. Standard notes also has rich text and todo list plugins.
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> free riders will come eat the server resources that's not the way to address a user whether paid or "free rider" as you call them.
is there a more appropriate verbiage the author should be using?
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> free riders will come eat the server resources that's not the way to address a user whether paid or "free rider" as you call them.
Actually, "free riders" is an excellent thinking model, and the likely most useful way to analyze it. He needs to create a sustainable app/service, and does not have a lot of external VC resources to burn while doing so. Thus, it must be sustainable in real time. Server loads are apparently one of his biggest expenses, so he must optimize to minimize those resources. OTOH, allowing people to take substantial 'free ri…