| > Building the thing that one can sell takes time you know. I know, but open-source does not mean free (as in beer), and closed-source does not mean paid. They are essentially unrelated things. You can publish the source but not license it. > I'm not sure I agree with that, if I decide to abandon Notable because it doesn't make financial sense to me, how do you think is going to continue its development? Like if something is not financially sustainable it's probably dead int he first place. This disregards the many great free apps that are around :) But anyway this point came from having the bad experinece of having all my notes in a system that pretty much got abandoned, and it really helped that it was open source to export my notes from its XML format. That's the main reason for that point from my side. > I haven't figured out the pricing yet, it's probably going to be something around 5 bucks a month. Lifetime licenses are unsustainable, like how much do you think you should pay Notable for hosting all your notes and attachments forever? Ah, like I said I didn't use the app but I wouldn't really want a note system that uses third-party servers anyway. I'd want to self-host it. With Tomboy I used to just sync its files with OwnCloud (because the built-in sync server was not great). However that pricing comes very close to other commercial options that are highly regarded, like EverNote (7 euro/month) or OneNote (you can get OneNote on a 5 euro per month O365 subscription that also includes email hosting and 1TB OneDrive). The 'hosted' notetaking market is very competitive. I'm not looking for a hosted option myself but I do know the market (and I use OneNote in work as it's the only thing I'm allowed to use there :( ) |
And what has that to do with your comment about not seeing the point of closing the source when the app is still free? I've answered why releasing the code with a stricter license (or no license) wasn't a viable strategy for me in a reply to the first comment in this HN posting.
> This disregards the many great free apps that are around :)
Which apps have at least the equivalent of somebody working full-time on them for free? And how long do you think that can go on?
> Ah, like I said I didn't use the app but I wouldn't use a note system that uses third-party servers anyway. I'd want to self-host it.
Of course you do, what do you think a fair pricing for that would be then?
> However that pricing comes very close to other commercial options that are highly regarded, like EverNote (7 euro/month) or OneNote (you can get OneNote on a 5 euro per month O365 subscription that also includes email hosting and 1TB OneDrive).
I wouldn't say Evernote is highly regarded, but anyway it's not always about finding the cheapest thing out there, for example I want to write my notes with Markdown, it doesn't matter to me if Evernote or OneNote are free if I can't do that with those apps.