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Re:The Business of SaaS by jakobegger on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:43AM (#16429769)
I’m currently looking for a team wiki solution (team of 3), but I wasn’t sold by your landing page.

Here are some things that went through my head:

- I don’t like the graphic design

- evaluating if this is good will take us more than a month

- I’m worried about lock-in. If, after a few months I discover this isn’t for us, do I need to keep paying not to lose my data?

Re:The Business of SaaS by jcadam on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:44AM (#16430741)
> - I don’t like the graphic design

Of the landing page or the product itself? The landing page is an easier fix :)

> - evaluating if this is good will take us more than a month

That's quite possibly true. Wikis take time to populate and only become useful if people commit to doing so. The problem is how to balance:

- Giving users time to evaluate the product

- Revenue

> - I’m worried about lock-in. If, after a few months I discover this isn’t for us, do I need to keep paying not to lose my data?

Valid point. I do plan to add a data export feature at some point. I'm wondering what the most useful format for such a thing might be. CSV? XML? JSON? SQL?

Conversely, I still haven't thought of a sane way to allow for a mass data import... but I'd like to.

Re:The Business of SaaS by jakobegger on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:17PM (#16431036)
I was talking about the graphic design of the product screenshots.

I'm personally not a fan of time limited trials -- I think feature or usage limits are better, especially when you don't have any users yet, and you need people to use the app and give feedback...

Re:The Business of SaaS by jcadam on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:43PM (#16431283)
Currently the trial is limited to 5 users and something like 100MB of file storage. I was actually more worried offering a free-tier would result in people abusing the service (i.e., using it to store/share illegal stuff).

However, just between you, me, and the internet, I actually haven't enabled the logic to lock trial accounts out at 30 days. Because I'm still unsure about it.