Show HN: Songcraft – Online Songwriting Platform and Guitar Tab Builder

Post by xster » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 6:02 PM UTC

gabergg wrote: post #39

xster wrote: post #34

How do you address the market of 30-something hobbyist with kids and jobs etc who might have short spurs of creativity followed by very long inactive periods. They might want to pay to use all the features and become good with the tool for sporadic use but might be turned off to the idea of paying for months of the account being dormant. A one time price for an online license like Propellerhead Reason seems sensible.

I wanted to launch with a simple pricing model, but I'm working on developing a longer term (annual/lifetime) plan to sit alongside the monthly one. I think that's an important point. A user could also disable their subscription for longer periods of inactivity, but that's obviously not ideal for a regular but infrequent project (e.g. a couple days per month).

Post by gabergg » Fri, Mar 22, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

asynchronous13 wrote: post #58

Several years ago I tried finding some reasonable software tools for music and was not at all impressed with what I could find. Great that you decided to make a better one! A long time ago I ran across ABC music notation, typically associated with old time or traditional music. I wonder if there could be an import filter that works with ABC notation?