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Re: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

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Post by vicke4 »

edoceo wrote: post #29
vicke4 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. But, I felt this is better than opening multiple browser tabs and losing focus. So, I built this.

Me too! I did my fix with a new-tab-page. So I see all that glance-able stuff frequently

Would love to hear more about your fix.

Re: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

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Post by vicke4 »

canada_dry wrote: post #26
neom wrote: post #25

How much are you thinking in terms of price? I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD.

> I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD I'd argue that seems grossly optimistic for most users. Considering that many useful tools are free and most people balk at paying $6.99 for an app. How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.

> How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.

Yeah! That seems like a nice strategy. Do you think people will be ready to pay subscription for unlimited access?

Re: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

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Post by neom »

vicke4 wrote: post #32
canada_dry wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD I'd argue that seems grossly optimistic for most users. Considering that many useful tools are free and most people balk at paying $6.99 for an app. How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.

> How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited. Yeah! That seems like a nice strategy. Do you think people will be ready to pay subscription for unlimited access?

I would MUCH prefer a subscription personally.

Re: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

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Post by edoceo »

vicke4 wrote: post #31
edoceo wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me too! I did my fix with a new-tab-page. So I see all that glance-able stuff frequently

Would love to hear more about your fix.

Ok. It's a new tab extension for FF or Chrome. Put all my favourite (read: work sites) on huge buttons at the top - so two clicks to CorpSlack (and like a dozen other sites. And below is these Social widgets, little JS tools showing me neat things from Reddit, Twitter, etc and then I put a textarea in there too, so I can quickly Ctrl+N and write a note (in local storage) extensions are super easy, and easy to extend too (for a cider)

Re: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

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Post by vicke4 »

iillexial wrote: post #34

The site says that "Radar is entirely free for open-source maintainers.". Can you please elaborate on this? I understand it as if you're contributing to any open-source software, and can prove it, you will get won't be asked to pay?

Sure. Without open-source projects, I would not have been able to build Radar. So, I wanted to give something back for the incredible work open-source maintainers are doing out there. Hence, the statement.

You will find it on the pricing page when Radar comes out of beta. The only thing I'm confused about is what kind of criteria I have to set before giving a free license to the person who wants to claim the offer? I'd appreciate it much if any of you guys can help set the criteria.

Re: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

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Post by sebringj »

This is a great idea but just so developers know, you can do some great stuff with google sheets, I made one with google sheets and the built-in request object via google sheet scripting to do REST requests for data and found that to be super useful. You can then tie it in to calculations and totals etc. using spreadsheet functionality...but this is nice for a quick summary with little effort.

Re: Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

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Post by KMnO4 »

neom wrote: post #33
vicke4 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited. Yeah! That seems like a nice strategy. Do you think people will be ready to pay subscription for unlimited access?

I would MUCH prefer a subscription personally.

I think you would be the exception. In fact, you may the only person I’ve ever heard express this preference.
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