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How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

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Re: How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

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post #7

Looks great - what about privacy/data security? Is the scanned data destroyed once the PDF it's in the hands of the customer?

It's a hosted backup and search service, I'm not even sure you'd want them to destroy the digital version. You probably have to close your account for that.

Re: How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

#24
post #3

I'd love to have this in Europe/Germany...

It's coming ;-)

Awesome, I'd love to order from the UK. Maybe add an "email me when available" field to your site for visitors from outside the US so you can capture them, as I know I'm going to forget in a few days, only to vaguely remember in a year or so.

Re: How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

#25
Off topic, but on a similar note, can anyone recommend a good feed in scanner? Placing pages/photos on the scanner plate seems to be too fiddly to do hundreds at a time, where as if I could just feed them in, either singly or in a stack...

Re: How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

#26

You can already do this with the Moleskine Smart Notebook, except you don't have to mail your private notebook to a 3rd party company for scanning - you can scan them directly into Evernote with the free Evernote app. tl;dr The exact same thing exists by Moleskine at http://shop.moleskine.com/en-us/notebooks-journals/evernote/

What is the difference between an ordinary Moleskine and the Evernote Moleskine? I couldn't figure it out from that product page.

Basically nothing aside from the branding. They do however give you stickers to help with tagging.

Re: How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

#27
This looks like an excellent product. I think I might try it out. I say "I think" because I wonder whether or not it might be too small for the things I would use it for. Might there be an option for larger (say A4 or US Letter sized) versions in the future?

Re: How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

#28
post #14

I never knew Mod was Draft until I read this linked article. http://needwant.com/p/cancelled-kickstarter-campaign-funded-... While reading that I was wondering, and not accusing Mod team here but just a thought, what is stopping people from using Kickstarter this way (to gauge demand) deliberately? Launch a campaign and yank when it is successful to pursue larger profits?

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Re: How We Built and Launched Mod For $22,450

#30
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Jon, really appreciate you posting about these pain points. I have been trying to get behind your notebooks since the launch last week, but as a user of the Moleskine notebooks I'm just not seeing the value add you guys are promoting. Hopefully you can help me see through my own myopia. My workflow usually takes me through a few pages of a notebook, which I then scan immediately afterwards into an Evernote note,…

Hey! Really appreciate the feedback. For me the value is in knowing everything is backed up and saved. I very rarely actually need access to my old notes and sketches from previous notebooks but there’s a lot of sentimental value there for me. If a note I take is actually time sensitive or needs to be referenced soon, I still have the physical notebook to reference. I have (low quality photos of) sketches of old idea…

Jon, the sentiment makes a lot of sense. And anyone reading HN should know the importance of having a backup/archive system setup before it's needed. I guess that really is the ease of mind that I would consider buying.

Between writing my earlier message and reading your response here, I think the idea of having a strategy less dependent on myself is in fact compelling.

Well, shoot. Now it looks as though I am of the mindset that I will buy one just to give it a fair trial. Thank you again for another quality and personal response.

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