Comment by SirAiedail | Hacker News Reader

Comment by SirAiedail | Hacker News Reader

Hey! Lucas, another Zenkit team member here! We're trying to answer your questions as quickly as possible!

Price: we'll use a freemium model, starting in Q1 2017. Pricing will be similar to other tools in the market.

Trello/imports from other apps: we have one click imports for Trello and Wunderlist, & working on more. We're also in beta with Zapier. You can see our Trello comparison here: zenkit.com/trello

Unstable/Problems registering: sorry to hear there are issues here! HN was pretty unexpected :) we'd be happy to fix this on a case by case basis. Please send us a short note to hello@zenkit.com with your username / registration email.

API/webhooks: we're working on publishing our API and we hooks. We'll make them public as soon as we release our iOS app at the end of this year.

Localization : support for more languages coming in Q1-2 2017!

Tutorials/onboarding: we're releasing videos in the next week or two. Again, HN was unexpected :D

Feature requests : thank you so much for your requests! We're taking note and will definitely keep everyone updated with new features. (we've already got a lot of great stuff in the pipeline!)

Feel free to get in touch via email if you want to chat!

Why freemium? In my opinion, a 14 day trial, and then $5 per month pricing is good enough. Sometimes I don't understand why so much software is given away for free.

I'll happily use it for free, of course, but it seems like value is being given away without a compelling reason.

Most business people get that our vendors have to pay to keep the lights on. Because this product enhances productivity, I doubt many business people would decide not to use this product, simply because it's paid. If so, they're probably not going to be in business long anyway.

Why not?

Once you get used to it and have all your people people of your recently created team using it as well, once you grow over the free threshold, you will most likely pay. In the long run I see freemium as better option.

14 day free trial usually drives me away from really trying the application, I may not have enough time to really see if this tool fits my team's need and I don't want to pay for something I don't use that much yet, no matter how small the amount.

Have you looked at integration with taskwarrior? A bidirectional sync for tasks would be very handy. Look at asanawarrior for an example.

That's a great idea, we're definitely working on expanding the number of integrations. Watch this space!

It's a database, but you don't talk about SQL. Will we have an SQL API?

We'll provide a REST API :)

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