[valyagolev]

Thank you. This seems very useful, and I'm considering proposing this right now to a couple of companies I work with.

However, as a person who used things like poeditor in different small places, there was always a concern about monthly payment for something used quite rarely. In this case, they'd pay for 1-2 months of intense use and then cancel the subscriptions.

In those small companies, I think they would gladly pay a one-time up-front fee, or perhaps a one-time small fee scaled with the amount of text in question... but subscribing for a fixed sum a month for something they don't intend to heavily use yet, probably not.

[jolenam]

Definitely understand where you’re coming from. The main reason we decided to go with a monthly pricing model is that we see Ditto as a tool that spans the product development process and roles of a company. Compared to localization management systems, which might come into play mainly at the end of a project, we’ve seen pretty consistent usage of Ditto across the drafting, design, development, and post-launch phases with our current customers. Oftentimes, designers and writers will use our Figma integration in the early stages of a project (taking advantage of the text component library to reuse existing text) and then other stakeholders like legal or marketing will come in to Ditto approve/review copy. In parallel, devs can fetch the latest copy from their command-line whenever there are updates as they’re building. Post-launch, updates to copy can be made in Ditto, and then easily pulled in by engineers.

[valyagolev]

Yeah, I understand. The clients of mine I'm thinking of are small, non-technical companies. They would absolute love something like this, but they're just not developing and redoing stuff as much as they'd need to justify this expense (in their minds).

[spoonjim]

Small companies are like 10% of the software market -- 75% of the revenue is sitting in large enteprises. So, frankly, while getting you on board is great for marketing and customer development (a lot easier to engage with a small company than a big one)... don't expect them to really care.

[valyagolev]

Sad but true. I'm not making any demands, just telling why it'd be a reluctant sell in some cases