![]() Okay, so, what core experience am I planning to work on in the next roadmap? That is, the mobile app. ![]() Provide the first-class experience on mobile platforms And I allow users to extend it as they want. Therefore, I focus on the core experience. The best user experience is that you can use it without reading the documentation. I don’t want to make it too bloated like Adobe products which require you to learn how to use. Supporting more features doesn’t always mean good news for everyone. On the other hand, while I try to keep it simple and clean, there are some users saying that it can do too many things. In v5, it supported the plugin GUI so that people can quickly find and install plugins. So, I’d focus on keeping providing powerful APIs rather than adding features for the particular use-cases. I provide plugin developer license in return for their contributions. And we’ve already got more than 100 plugins now, which is awesome. Inkdrop provides powerful APIs to accomplish various features. For those requests, I usually think if they can be done by making a plugin. At the same time, I understand that there are many personal preferences and use-cases. However, some ideas would affect the app’s fundamental concept, which is unacceptable, unfortunately. If the app doesn’t solve the right issues, you would’ve quit using it before suggesting ideas. The more I solve them, the more people can come up with interesting ideas. That would indicate that I’ve been working on the right issues. As users are happy with the current features, the ideas they come up with tend to be related to more particular use-cases recently. We’ve got v5, in which the basic feature set has been supported as a note-taking app. The feature requests have been changing from the beginning. So, please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts with me. Sometimes I initially say no to a request, keep getting it from others, rethink it, and find it important. Your feedback always makes me think and gives me ideas because I don’t know everything. That means that Inkdrop has been evolved with you. As you can see, the most implemented features and fixed issues were requested and reported by users. Please check out the past roadmaps and release notes. The doubled revenue is used to pay for them. I have to train and manage the user support team. Then, I get stressed out, hire people to provide user support for them, and try to make time for the development. I often get troubles like people are angry for unknown reasons. I try to answer them, but they still don’t get what I’m talking about. But if I did it, soon I get tons of questions from people like who don’t understand what they don’t understand. It looks very nice to target them, indeed. For example, there are a lot of beginner programmers who even don’t know what Markdown is out there. You can broaden the target so that you can double the revenue. And that is the most important factor in order for me to keep running. And I’ve been solely focusing on improving the core features instead of adding features that I won’t use. I saw many people have left Inkdrop because I said a lot of noes to their feature requests. I help people who are similar to me - those who want to take notes in plain-text Markdown for their personal use. The reason why I could keep running this project without burnout is largely concerned with the app’s main target. Despite this Corona pandemic situation, fortunately, the revenue keeps stable and the cumulative total of gross sales has almost reached 200k USD □ ![]() ![]() It would’ve not been possible without all your support. The first roadmap was announced 4 years ago. The number of the next roadmap is volume 5. Provide the first-class experience on mobile platforms.The cumulative total of gross sales has almost reached 200k USD.So, let’s talk about the future of Inkdrop. And now, the current roadmap (vol.4) has been finally finished. It comes with a bunch of new features and improvements that help you organize your notes much more flexibly. Last month, Inkdrop v5 has been released. It’s Takuya, the solo developer of Inkdrop. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |