Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad

Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by Closi on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:44PM (#24295533)

> We’re charging $100/year, comparable to other prosumer tools like Dropbox, Evernote...

Well Evernote has a free tier and past that it’s really <$50 per year - plus there is currently an additional 40% off, so I think your competitor pricing research might be a little off.

I mean if you are really comparing against Evernote it’s really free for a similar service, and offer multi-device sync between mobile and their desktop app as a service, so I would say the Evernote free tier is the most comparable even though I like the look of your product.

This is a $19.99 app or $2.99 per month subscription to compete with things like notability.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by IOT_Apprentice on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:23PM (#24299367)

Notion has a free tier as well. I've moved to it from Evernote after paying for the full version for years. I'm not sure I'm enthralled with $99/year, given I pay that amount for O365 which gives me much more plus 1TB of OneDrive.

As you have a free tier, I'll give it a shot.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by mbreese on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:06PM (#24298660)

> Evernote has a free tier and past that it’s really <$50 per year

Not to mention, Evernote used to cost more, but that lost them a bunch of customers (and lost their dominant market position). So, I'm not sure that's the competitor that I'd be trying to follow for pricing.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by eitland on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:17PM (#24300769)

Evernote also messed up badly by losing ot messing up customer data a few years ago IIRC.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by cellularmitosis on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:25AM (#24301625)

Also doing a massive website redesign instead of investing in fundamentals like fixing the bugs in their WYSIWYG HTML editor. Lot of questionable product decisions from that company in the past half decade.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by adamwiggins on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:48PM (#24295573)

That's a reasonable objection. Muse does have a free tier also.

Notability is a great app, but it's a sketchbook so not really a comparison.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by Closi on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:52PM (#24297196)

I think notability would describe themselves as a note taking app (which is what I use it for).

Your app looks great, as soon as the price point is somewhere near sensible for me I’ll be a customer, but it’s quite a way off for me personally yet.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by benhurmarcel on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:51PM (#24299102)

You should make clear somewhere (in the App Store description ideally, otherwise on your website) what are the limitations of the free version.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by icelancer on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:19PM (#24299320)

Yeah - it's not clear at all.

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Re:Show HN: Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad by newfromblammo on Friday August 28, 2020 @04:42PM (#24309704)

To add some perspective to the price point. In New Zealand we hav 15% sales tax, plus the exchange rate. The purchasing power of the NZD when adjusted for earnings etc is pretty close to even

Which is a silly way of saying, if you think the pricing looks daft where you are, it costs almost twice as much here!

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