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Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by Akronymus »

Waterluvian wrote: post #26
kjuulh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

There’s got to be a term for this given how I see it daily: when experts are so hyper focused that they’re not even aware they might have to at least indicate what a compositor even is. I think a common response is that if you don’t know, you’re not the audience anyways. But that lops off your customer funnel and limits the general awareness of your product. You want to bring everyone one step closer to your product…

average familiarity [1] comes to mind.

1 https://xkcd.com/2501/

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by NewJazz »

WD-42 wrote: post #4

This is the only DE/WM I have ever heard of having "premium" features. I don't have a problem with the developers trying to bring in some funding but this is bizarre. I predict there is around a 0% chance that someone won't fork hyprland and implement the premium features themselves. Especially in this scene.

I doubt anyone wants to touch/maintain hyprland. Niri and sway? Much more likely to see outside contributions IMO.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#43

Post by perching_aix »

dekapan wrote: post #25
__s wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drew DeVault detailed that your Discord experience is not unusual https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

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> JFYI, any criticism directed by that person [(Drew DeVault)] should be taken with a massive shovel of salt

Just like any other person's if they fail to illustrate their points, preventing you from making your own judgement whether you agree with them or not. At a quick glance, that post doesn't lack this.

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by Aurornis »

Waterluvian wrote: post #26
kjuulh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is weird, this is their main website: https://hypr.land/ Which has a demo. This website seems to only be for the account / payments.

There’s got to be a term for this given how I see it daily: when experts are so hyper focused that they’re not even aware they might have to at least indicate what a compositor even is. I think a common response is that if you don’t know, you’re not the audience anyways. But that lops off your customer funnel and limits the general awareness of your product. You want to bring everyone one step closer to your product…

In the case of niche, power user focused products like this I think it’s actually reasonable to assume the target audience should know what a compositor is.

For projects like this that come with some assembly required, having a light filter on your funnel can actually be beneficial. Cast too wide of a net and you collect a lot of people who aren’t qualified to use the product but expect a lot of support anyway.

Re: Hyprland Premium

#45

Post by NewJazz »

jeroenvlek wrote: post #30

I've been using Hyprland now for 4 months and it's my first tiling WM experience. I absolutely love it and actually donated 10 euro to the dev(s?). Having said that: This is simply not mature enough yet to warrant a 60 euro a year subscription, regardless of premium features. To be clear, I do see the potential and I would actually pay it but this is too early.

Hasn't Hyprland been in the works for years? Maybe try Niri or sway. Sway is rock solid IME.

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by dartharva »

kjuulh wrote: post #5

I've got absolutely no problem with them taking donations / having a premium option. But it is very difficult to comment on when there is no indication what the premium experience brings.

Dedicated (not community) support tends to generally be the default offering. Orion browser has the same: https://kagi.com/orion/orionplus.html

Re: Hyprland Premium

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Post by rc00 »

echelon wrote: post #36
calmbonsai wrote: post #6

How to fail at a product website lesson #1: Don't describe the purpose and show the experience of your product on the home page. I have no idea what "Hyperland" is.

It's a tiling window manager for a few Linux distros. Arch, not Ubuntu.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&...
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