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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 17, 2018 at 02:31 PM
P.S. Just a note to say that I wrote my input before your reply was posted, so I didn’t take it into account, but I believe that the suggested approach is compatible with yours.
P.P.S. I should add that I’ll be happy to participate along with my company when the programme is ported to Windows…
Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 17, 2018 at 04:55 PM
This is an interesting model—somewhat of a variety of the community approach we have in enterprise software but generally not seen in consumer level COTs software. Community approaches usually involve some sort of community governance to gain consensus on features. Are you thinking of a “user council” that customers could buy into?
If I paid, say, $49 for SheetPlanner and needed a specific filter, say, which wasn’t on the road map. And the offer was $300. I’d probably say, thanks, but I’ll get by with what I have. If I knew that if I paid $300 then the next person would get the feature for $0, I’d probably think “I love my fellow hominids, but I just bought that fellow a very generous present. Hmmm”.
So, it’s hard to see this working in practice.
Makes more sense to just have a subscription model and take your chances.
SheetPlanner wrote:
>>An example might be a very specific filter operator and the cost might
>be $300. Something like that.
>
>Yes any features incorporated in that way would be available to all.
Posted by SheetPlanner
Aug 17, 2018 at 06:26 PM
Alexander,
Thanks for your feedback. Much appreciated.
After we get the Mac version launched and some runway, I will give some thought to the possibility of a Windows version.
Maybe you could send me your contact info at support@sheetplanner.com
Thanks,
Peter
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
P.S. Just a note to say that I wrote my input before your reply was
>posted, so I didn’t take it into account, but I believe that the
>suggested approach is compatible with yours.
>
>P.P.S. I should add that I’ll be happy to participate along with my
>company when the programme is ported to Windows…
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Aug 17, 2018 at 11:29 PM
I’m not familiar enough with the program to be requesting features. But I can tell you that I would like Sheetplanner and Tinderbox to have usable documentation. Tinderbox has a reputation of being a program that is great when you can figure out how to use it. Sheetplanner doesn’t have any documentation via the Help menu, so I don’t know exactly what it does. I am a creature of the 1980s, and one of the few people who read the XyWrite and askSam documentation from cover to cover. With no documentation or obtuse documentation, I usually give up on otherwise useful documentation.
So I guess I am saying that I am willing to pay extra for a manual on SheetPlanner, but I really don’t like the concept.
Posted by SheetPlanner
Aug 18, 2018 at 03:36 PM
Jeff,
We are working on it. It will be there at launch time I expect!
Peter
Jeffery Smith wrote:
I’m not familiar enough with the program to be requesting features. But
>I can tell you that I would like Sheetplanner and Tinderbox to have
>usable documentation. Tinderbox has a reputation of being a program that
>is great when you can figure out how to use it. Sheetplanner doesn’t
>have any documentation via the Help menu, so I don’t know exactly what
>it does. I am a creature of the 1980s, and one of the few people who
>read the XyWrite and askSam documentation from cover to cover. With no
>documentation or obtuse documentation, I usually give up on otherwise
>useful documentation.
>
>So I guess I am saying that I am willing to pay extra for a manual on
>SheetPlanner, but I really don’t like the concept.