Re HyperPlan or Hyper Plan

Posted by 22111
Jan 25, 2015 at 11:23 AM

I briefly mentioned HP in some other thread (“It’s the old, old problem, coders doing software design, cf. hyperplan.com which could become something very useful, but only with lots of design work in-between (and no, software design is not so much about looks).”), but its version 1.0 (see below) is “on sale” at bits very soon, so I just posted this comment on it over there, and into which you might be interested in:

“You will get a free upgrade to v2 if we release it within 90 days of your purchase of v1. You will get a 60% discount when purchasing v2 if we release it more than 90 days after your purchase of v1.”

This is without any possible doubt one of the least advantageous upgrade/update policies I’ve seen in my life, just slightly/theoretically better than “as-it-is-and-not-even-minor-debugging”.

HP came to my attention from the author’s site (he’s got an instructive blog about optimized software marketing (!)), just some weeks ago, where HP was 0.x (cf. the current (!), short intro vid over there: 0.4xx), so it’s quite safe to assume we are deemed to buy a sort of “final beta” = “1.0”, with no more functionality (but hopefully less bugs if there were any?) than those betas.

In its current form, HP is not that useful yet; users who would like to link just ONE file to one screen element, should have a look at TheBrain (free version), and users who need to link more than just one file at the same time to some category (and to multiple categories), should have a look at Tabbles (free version here again, and which works a little bit differently, also, but could serve your purpose (as could possibly some other tag tools: TaggedFrog, TaggTool, Better Tags, DiviFile, Elyse, Tags for All, and some others (most of them free)).

This being said, HP is a very appealing concept, but not worth my buying a “final beta” (1.0), in its current development state, considering that chances are high that a version with even very few further development will be released beyond the 90 days mentioned above; but let the developer speak for himself:

“If you aren’t embarrassed by v1.0 you didn’t release it early enough”

(And that’s not all: The developer is an expert in cutting up software into different versions of highly differentiated functionality / usefulness, e.g. at 30, 75 and 300 dollars (each plus VAT), so chances are HP will offer its eventually really useful features at some 300 bucks only (or, if you extrapolate the base price (40 vs. 30 (and thus, possibly 100 vs. 75), 400 bucks plus VAT), which is another argument for me to sit and wait, instead of prematurely buying. (And yes, for the citation above, I made a screenshot.))