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Agenda's business model
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Posted by Luhmann
Jan 16, 2018 at 06:54 AM
Interesting post about Agenda’s business model and trying to find something other than a subscription model:
https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agenda-138a11995595
“Agenda’s sales model lies somewhere between freemium and subscription. The app itself is free, with no time limits, but there are extra premium features that require an In App Purchase (IAP) to unlock. When an upgrade pack is purchased, all current features are permanently unlocked across all of the user’s Macs (…and iOS devices, when the iOS app becomes available). In addition, any features added to Agenda in the twelve months following the purchase are included, and permanently unlocked as well.
Only after the twelve month pack has expired can new premium features begin to appear that require a new purchase. The user can choose to buy a new pack, unlocking twelve more months of new features, or be content with what they already have until features are added which tempt them to purchase again.”
Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 16, 2018 at 11:12 AM
It’s a nice application, Agenda. The markdown export is worth the “premium”. I like it that one can pop open the support forum from inside the application—which makes it seem the developers are always available to address issues, comments and requests.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 16, 2018 at 11:31 AM
The thing that I truly appreciate:
“We felt it was important to always be able to offer customers the latest build of Agenda, so that they get all of the bug fixes, even if they haven’t paid or their year of features is up. For this reason, cash cow is about unlocking features, rather than unlocking updates.”
Steve Z.
Posted by Chris Thompson
Jan 16, 2018 at 02:23 PM
It seems like a lot of extra developer work to support this model—it seems inspired by the Sketch/Tinderbox model (which I don’t think anyone has any problem with, unlike the Ulysses model and the like), but I’m not convinced it’s that much better than that model. That being said, I don’t think anyone will have any problems with this either.
It probably would have been smarter to pick a less generic name than “Agenda” though. These generic names are sometimes hard to find. Worst in that respect goes to Notion… even though it’s a fantastic app, it’s next to impossible to find unless you know the URL. They should have just called it NotionHQ.
I haven’t had time to try the beta for Agenda, but it’s nice to see that the Papers developer is on the team. What’s the consensus on how good it is?
Posted by exatty95
Jan 16, 2018 at 05:17 PM
On my computer Agenda uses a ton of resources. Are other users experiencing this?