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Hyper Plan v2 is out
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Posted by pereh
Mar 12, 2016 at 06:58 PM
HyperPlan v2 will be on ‘bitsdujour’ soon, with a 50% discount.
I should have known that last week…
Posted by Andy Brice
Mar 12, 2016 at 10:53 PM
>HyperPlan v2 will be on ‘bitsdujour’ soon, with a 50% discount.
Yes it will. It was arranged with BDJ quite a while back. New licenses will be $20 instead of $40 during the sale. But only new licenses are discounted, not upgrades from v1 to v2 (which are already discounted 60%).
BDJ and similar deal sites are a bit of a faustian bargain for vendors. On the minus side they discount 50% and take a comission of 50%, so we only get $10 per sale. That’s not great for us, especially when we still have to provide technical support. Also people who have recently paid $40 and find out about the 50% off sale can get buyers remorse. On the plus side we get exposure to a new audience and hopefully we can make money from upgrades further down the line.
If anyone has bought a new license for Hyper Plan for $40 in the last few weeks and is feeling buyers remorse because they missed the sale, email me:
http://www.hyperplan.com/contact.html
I had considered posting a discount coupon here. But I thought would be crossing a line into inappropriate self promotion.
Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 13, 2016 at 11:13 AM
Thanks Andy. Looking forward to using v2.
Do you have your own forum for users? I’m guessing there might be some emerging use cases or good practices that users would want to share if you had your own place to discuss them.
Posted by Andy Brice
Mar 13, 2016 at 02:07 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>Do you have your own forum for users? I’m guessing there might be some
>emerging use cases or good practices that users would want to share if
>you had your own place to discuss them.
Currently I don’t. An active forum is a real asset to both the users and the vendor. But a dead forum is a bit of an embarrassment for the vendor. So I just need to judge when is the right time. I really like the discourse.org forum software.
Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 13, 2016 at 06:01 PM
Understood. Thanks Andy. You’re a pretty gregarious fellow, I imagine, and a developer who’s open to to the customer’s interests and opinion. So, I’m sure a forum would be lively.
Absolutely agree with using Discourse over phpbb, a custom job, or any other the other existing options. Forums that use Discourse offer more flexibility to everyone Just having the ability to edit or withdraw one posts is huge. I’ve heard it can be a struggle to implement and manage though.
Andy Brice wrote
>I really like the discourse.org forum software.