A thought stream on XKCD click and drag

https://thoughtstreams.io/jtauber/xkcd-click-and-drag/

by brosner • 14 years ago

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waterlesscloud• 14 years ago

I want to do a thoughtstream on thoughtstreams.

I like the idea. A lot. And yet I don't want to pay for it. Which is a reaction worth exploring a bit more.

jere2• 14 years ago

Maybe I can interest you in my new startup: Paragraphs.io

It bridges the gap between single sentences and never ending wall-o-texts. With a single keyboard shortcut (tap 'return' twice), your content is partitioned into easily digestible Paragraphs™

All this and no more for only $50/year.

melvinmt• 14 years ago

> Maybe I can interest you in my new startup: Paragraphs.io

Do you mean paragraph.io? And how is your startup supposed to solve his unwillingness to pay?

vineet4• 14 years ago

Thoughtstream is cool. But it needs atleast a 30-day evaluation for me to get a sense of how easy it would me to use.

But perhaps even take the idea further. How about the ability to create up to 30 thought streams for free. Anyone who has created that much will see its value and will want to pay?

TillE• 14 years ago

Freemium is almost always a losing model for small businesses. A trial would be nice, though.

vineet4• 14 years ago

I don't know.

There are many people who just expect freemium to solve all their problems. Freemium needs to be carefully applied, and needs to make sure to be aligned with evaluation needs of potential paying users. Most times startups do not work on the details to make it happen.

30-day evaluations are really helpful when an urgency exists to use a product - in my experience for lots of business sales. But now-days I often get distracted with some project and am not really able to evaluate the product the first time around.

I look at freemium as an evaluation license for as long as you are not doing anything serious with the product. Ofcourse, you need to define the terms of the freemium part. Companies like Heroku do a great job with it.

jtauber3• 14 years ago

We'll eventually offer monthly plans with a free trial but we're looking for supporters at the moment, like the 10,000+ people that paid $50 for app.net

jtauber3• 14 years ago

Over 10,000 people were willing to pay $50 to see app.net built without ever having seen it.

vineet4• 14 years ago

Please don't take lessons from app.net. They may have some good ideas behind themselves, but quite frankly I have not figured what they are.

s_henry_paulson• 14 years ago

And here I came to the comments to read about people's thoughts on the article...

A thought stream on XKCD click and drag

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