[MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

Dear MailMate users,

as many of you have probably seen then I posted a few times on my blog 
at the end of last week. First of all, [MailMate 
1.7](http://blog.freron.com/2013/mailmate-1-7-released/) was relased, 
but more importantly I posted a personal message entitled “[Changing 
Priorities](http://blog.freron.com/2013/changing-priorities/)”. It 
describes how my financial situation changes next year and how that is 
very likely to affect my future work on MailMate. In short, you can 
thank my wife that MailMate exists at all :-)

As part of the blog post I launched a somewhat crude [crowdfunding 
page](http://freron.com/crowdfund2014/). I wanted to get a feeling if 
this was an option with respect to being able to continue developing 
MailMate full time in 2014. I set a deadline November 1st which is a 
very short time, but it was also intended to be a quick experiment. So 
far, I've received pledges for almost $5000 in total. I'm trilled that 
so many quickly showed their support and I've received pledges ranging 
from $20 to $200 — and a single pledge of $500!

But (unfortunately there is a but) this is only 10% of my unofficial 
goal number ($50K) and it's not very likely that I'll get to 100%. We'll 
see. In any case, it has inspired me to look into crowdfunding services 
such as [http://indiegogo.com](http://indiegogo.com) for crowd funding 
development of MailMate 2.0. This could perhaps be a $25K goal for 6 
months of development to make it more likely to be reached. If I do that 
then I'll naturally send an email to everyone who has pledged money and 
point them in that direction. If you have any good ideas for “perks” 
(other than MailMate license keys) then please send them to me.

Note that I have also announced a price change for MailMate. Later today 
the price changes to $49.99. See my comments about that in the [blog 
post](http://blog.freron.com/2013/changing-priorities/) if you like.

And finally, note that I also posted on the blog about the configuration 
of [multiple 
identities](http://blog.freron.com/2013/handling-multiple-identities/).

Thanks to everyone pledging money (or buying MailMate license keys)! I 
know that some of you are probably even worse off financially than I am 
and I truly appreciate your support.

-- 
Benny
http://freron.com/crowdfunding2014
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