March 22, 2008 at 11:20 pm
· Filed under timerSync
I finally got the time to sit back and think about my pricing policy for timerSync, motivated after a user complained that it really bothers him to pay every year for an upgrade (to have the newest version always) for such a tiny application as timerSync. First I ignored his comment, but now after FreshBooks released their timer widget for Mac and announced the soon release of a Yahoo widget for Vista, it got me thinking.
As it is now, I sell timerSync with 2 options, $19 for 3 months free updates & support and $24 for 1 year free updates & support. And I don’t think the price is too high (I know, compared to free it is), but I tried to get in the shoes of the user who made the complaint and I can understand him. Basic functionality of the timer is to count the time and submit it to FreshBooks. Not a rocket science. All the extras are welcomed (and I plan to add much more), but at the end it is just that, a timer.
At the moment I am thinking to drop the lower price of $19 and keep only the upper $24, with the change that the license would be for lifetime. I just got the idea and I believe I’ll implement it, but I’ll leave it for a few days. I am certain that if I decide to make this change, this will be retroactive, so everyone that bought timerSync will also get lifetime free updates. We’ll see…
Update: I’ve made up my mind, I decided to go this route, so now it is official, timerSync comes with lifetime free upgrades.
It is so late night here, we are heading tomorrow to my wife’s parents house in Krusevo, but I must write this, it looks so funny to me. I am talking about the video clip I discovered on the tape. I had to free up one tape and was waiting for the PC to finish the hard work and while skimming trough the movie I found this sequence. Our son Stefan is playing around the room in the morning wearing a pair of sunglasses. Maybe it is just me, but to me it is great. Don’t watch the room, it is a mess!
