[MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

[Ryan Erwin]

Benny,

Did you send a notice about the crowd funding opportunity to all of your 
licensed users? I didn't notice one - I only saw notice through the 
mailing list.

If you don't want to send an email blast, perhaps you should send a link 
inside of the MailMate updates. If you get a 5-10% response rate to your 
offer, your doing pretty good. I also noticed that the crowd funding 
link you sent in MailMate wasn't a working link. The link in your emails 
is to http://freron.com/crowdfunding2014 but the valid website link is 
http://freron.com/crowdfund2014/

I think those of us on this list here are the most invested in seeing 
MailMate succeed, we care enough about MailMate to get several emails 
per day about it.

Perhaps we can all work together on some ideas to help Benny promote 
MailMate, point out the features that will show why every hacker needs a 
copy of MailMate, and eventually put together a short, sweet, 3 minute 
screencast of what MailMate 2.0 could be, the post it on indiegogo (why 
not kickstarter?) and try this again.

Personally, I use MailMate more than any other program on my MBA, and I 
carry it around with me everywhere. I would hate to see this program 
stagnate, it's already so much better at search than Mail.app, but there 
is still so much that could be done to make MailMate truly great.

Best,

-Ryan in Shanghai

On 21 Oct 2013, at 20:31, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> 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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