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Posted by tightbeam
Jun 27, 2020 at 10:50 AM
The developer makes it clear that this is a side project for him:
“My name is Richard and I’m primarily a freelance web developer. Notebag is my current side project. I do all the coding, marketing, design and everything else. If you want to have a chat, reach out to me on Twitter”
Nothing wrong with that! Though it’s wise to be cautious…
Posted by Richard :: pretzelhands
Jun 29, 2020 at 10:06 AM
Hey everyone!
I was told that Notebag would be posted here, so I decided to check in and see what you had to say. Thanks to all the people who gave positive feedback and tried to defend me! :)
To address some of the things posted here:
* Yes, I am a solo developer.
* Yes, Notebag is still very much a side project that I do next to my other work.
* Yes, I am currently selling the app as part of a promotion with Stackcommerce/StackSocial.
* Yes, the license includes one year of updates. This is like other apps such as Sketch. If you don’t want to, I won’t force you pay for another year of updates down the road, nor do I have the ability to auto-charge you. You can always just keep the latest version that you have installed and it’ll keep working. I consider this to be a fair arrangement, but anyone is free to disagree.
From my point of view I didn’t try to copy Roam or Obsidian or feel that I’m following some hype train. I wasn’t even aware of Roam until I saw Anne-Laure Le Cunff talk about it. As for Obsidian, I was made aware of it on my own launch day. I added features as people requested them and they seemed useful. The linking feature was part of that. For anyone who’s curious to check, there’s a few tweets where you can follow my idea finding process for the 1.0 version of the app:
https://twitter.com/pretzelhds/status/1226198239289978880
https://twitter.com/pretzelhds/status/1235257841088368640
https://twitter.com/pretzelhds/status/1236402270373318667
What Notebag originally was and still is to this day, is a note taking app that I build in my ideal image. I wanted something I would enjoy using every day. Some other people wanted it too, so I made it purchasable and gathered some input from other users. Everyone is welcome to check out the trial and see for themselves whether they like the app enough to support me. And the more support I get, the more I can re-focus my time to bring cool features to it. :)
Posted by washere
Oct 28, 2020 at 01:37 PM
As i predicted a few months ago, despite protestations disagreeing, this would be Ca$hed-in on fast with fake long term commitments and then would soon be abandonware.
No use investing precious time, strategic long term on any abandonware, worst yet this never went beyond prototype.
It is now abandoned, record time, worst quickie cash & abandon job ever seen, only lasted a few months.
Maybe someone can email him again to show up again. I bet the person who emailed him never bought it himself.
Cheers,
Washere!
Posted by Luhmann
Oct 29, 2020 at 02:14 AM
I couldn’t find what Washere was talking about at first, but turned out to be this tweet:
https://twitter.com/pretzelhds/status/1321205962682892289
Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 29, 2020 at 09:13 AM
Wow, that’s a tad cynical, especially since he’s open-sourced the code – and is offering refunds.
Washere, you frequently make nasty, knee-jerk comments about developers. They detract from your many sensible comments about models, approaches and solutions.
There are already far too many people online who take delight in attacking others. It would be really, really nice if people would stop and think before attacking, and maybe give those others the benefit of the doubt. As a culture, we have lost the skill of what Frank Herbert in “Dune” describes as spannungsbogen – the pause between thinking about doing something and actually doing it.
Maybe it’s time to think about developing a more sophisticated sense of spannungsbogen…?
washere wrote:
As i predicted a few months ago, despite protestations disagreeing, this
>would be Ca$hed-in on fast with fake long term commitments and then
>would soon be abandonware.
>
>No use investing precious time, strategic long term on any abandonware,
>worst yet this never went beyond prototype.
>
>It is now abandoned, record time, worst quickie cash & abandon job ever
>seen, only lasted a few months.
>
>Maybe someone can email him again to show up again. I bet the person who
>emailed him never bought it himself.
>
>Cheers,
>Washere!
>