Inkdrop man software#
Inkdrop man free#

The app's target would be those who are similar to me who don't hesitate to pay for their favorite tools. So pricing is not necessary to follow other major services like Evernote even if it feels like too expensive for some people. It's just a modestly profitable niche where big companies won't invest. Since it's not a startup trying to build the next Google this time, I don't need to catch hundreds of millions of users.

Inkdrop man free#

I decided to sell it with $4.99 per month or $49.9 per year with 60-day free trial. With the app based on the subscription model, you just need to provide an ongoing valuable service. Lifetime pricing requires you to keep upselling them by adding more and more and more.

The most important thing is to make sure everything is sustainable. If you don’t see such heavy users yet, it means that the app isn’t enough. I used Mixpanel for the product analytics. In this stage I often checked usage statistics to see if there’re heavy users who use the app everyday because it would indicate a likelihood of the app success. So I started off by forking Kitematic, an open source Docker container manager (Apache License) because they have already struggled over many problems to get good practices instead of me. It was the first time I used Electron and ReactJS. When it comes to UI design, I greatly got inspirations from Airmail's beautiful UI. Thanks to CodeMirror, I accomplished to make a great Markdown editor with no effort. If you are in offline, it will resume syncing automatically when you go back online. To accomplish the quick sync I used CouchDB and PouchDB because they provide built-in sync. ReactJS was great choice because I use React Native to build a mobile version later. I chose Electron for building cross platform desktop app. I repeated scrap-and-build until I love it. If I couldn’t truly think “this is it!” when I’ve built an MVP, it isn’t really solving the problem. In an minimal viable product(MVP) I could add other features nice to have but I excluded them all because it should be for validating the core value. Building an MVP until you love itĪ core value of the app would be abilities to solve the problem. So I ended up making my own note-taking app because I was tired searching for the perfect one. It looks like personal preference issues though these were very important for me.

I couldn’t even adopt apps with lack of features, too complicated features, or not beautiful looking for my daily use. Apps using cloud storage services like Dropbox are too slow to sync and consume many CPU resources because I’m storing lots of files on it. Web-based services like Wiki are usually hard to find from lots of tabs and not usable in offline. I tried numerous Markdown based applications over the years but I couldn’t find a keeper.

Inkdrop man software#

So I always make a service that would solve my problem because there’s my market.Ībout two years ago I was very frustrated with taking notes regarding software development. If I’m having a problem, it’s likely hundreds of thousands of others are in the same boat. Writing down what you learned in your project.

Focusing on providing good user support.

Focusing on sustainability with pricing.

Getting early heavy users during private beta.

Inkdrop’s monthly revenue is now $1,361 (1 USD = 110 JPY) TL DR