[MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 21 Oct 2013, at 16:34, Ryan Erwin wrote:

> 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.

No, not yet. I'm thinking I might postpone this until after I decide 
whether or not to make a “real” crowd funding page.

> If you don't want to send an email blast, perhaps you should send a 
> link inside of the MailMate updates.

Same answer.

> 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/

Thanks!

> 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.

As proven by my track record then I'm really bad at taking the time to 
do a screencast. I haven't even played with screencasting software (I 
also fear a very amateurish result). But a screencast is probably a 
must-have for a real crowd funding site.

I just looked into indiegogo before Kickstarter. I'll have to compare 
them and also make sure it is not a problem that I'm located in Denmark.

> 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.

I cannot disagree with that :-)

-- 
Benny
http://freron.com/crowdfund2014/