[pj747]

Thanks a ton for that feedback! I absolutely did not realise how that sounded. We definitely don’t aim to blindside early adopters with a sudden pay-us-or-you-lose-data deadline.

The plan is that anything you do right now you’ll ALWAYS have access to, and at some point (not before December 2022) we begin charging a subscription to begin saving data to new documents. New users post that deadline will have a threshold of documents that they can use the product on for free.

If free and paid tiers are what you absolutely need, please drop me a mail! Would hate to have an early user disappear because we’re still figuring out exact pricing strategies.

[Brajeshwar]

When in doubt, do something like this -- $99.99 a year (or something higher than you are thinking right now) BUT free during the beta. So, people will either stay because they can afford that or is worth it or will leave. So, you end up with users who you will likely care enough to make good features for them.

[pj747]

Yup. By the next show HN, I'll be sure to come back with more clarity on this front. This is a solid idea. Allows us to focus on power users.

[dotancohen]

  > Allows us to focus on power users.

I'm extraordinarily wary of relying on non-open-source software. But when I see that you are focusing on power users, that does arouse my interest - that's why I continue to pay for Jetbrains even though VIM is fee.

But if I leave Jetbrains I can still work on my projects with VIM. If I leave Desklamp, how can I continue to view my notes? Do third party PDF readers, e.g. Okular, support whatever annotation format you are using?

I need an exit strategy if the company goes belly up, or I am unable to pay my bills, or QT N+1 is incompatible with my Foobar, or I don't upgrade, or the US sanctions my country, or DNS is blocked after reinstalling the OS, or exploits are not resolved in Desklamp, etc etc.

[elashri]

I would argue that vim and its ecosystem is the one targeting power users while Jetbrains products are more open for users. Just look how much freedom you have to customize vim vs any IDE.

[dotancohen]

I find that much of the customizations done to VIM are the addition of features already in Jetbrains. In any case, I use IdeaVIM with Jetbrains, so I'm actually not missing VIM.

[anigbrowl]

I'll give it another look. Thanks for your considerate reply!