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by infinite8s 3584 days ago
Question for any users out there - was the valuable part of Wagon the querying/graphing capability, or the sharing part? I've been building a cross-platform desktop app (using Qt) that is basically a SQL querying tool for data analysts instead of developers (with a focus on analyzing data instead of being able to modify data). I've been trying to figure out how to price it and was a bit discouraged when I found Wagon (how do you compete with free)? Also it's tougher to do sharing of interactive charts with a desktop product (although I have ideas for being able to post static annotated charts into slack or other popular SAAS products).
2 comments

Huge Wagon fan. Very sad to see it go. I loved both the sharing functionality (shared folders + being able to easily share a link) and graphing capabilities. If I had to pick one over the other I'd probably pick the graphing capabilities.

Would love for you to replicate Wagon :)

I'd be happy to pay $5-10 / month to continue to use Wagon past October

Competing with free is really easy when things like this happen.

There is a simple question to determine your relationship to a company or product, are you the customer or the product. Did you pay for it?

If no, you're the product and they can arbitrarily change the rules of the game.

If yes, yay you.