[icey]

I loved "Getting Real" and I pre-ordered "Rework" as soon as I could. I like making money too, so I see where you're coming from.

That being said, this feels misguided to me. I think you could have avoided all of the hubbub by just asking for a Sortfolio link and a tweet. I'm sure the product is good enough that you'd end up with some number of upgrades anyways.

If you really wanted a "value-add" for your existing Pro customers, you would have opened this up to them separately, especially since the big selling points of pro subscriptions revolve around being able to separate yourself out from the crowd with premium real-estate on the page and larger ads. If I were a pro member, I would think this actually devalues my membership as it encourages more people to compete with the premium page locations.

Nobody is insinuating you guys need any kind of financial help; if they thought that was the case I don't think people would have said a peep about it.

At the end of the day, you're still the guy that a lot of people get their business ideas from; I'm sure you know what you're doing. At least it will be easy for the rest of us to quantify the results with a simple Twitter search: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23sortfoliosvn