Tinmark is now free – fully for 30 days, read and edit after that
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It's so...
- Simple - just music and screen grabs
- To the point - shows you exactly how you'd use the product... quickly!
- Not boring - the video is clear, the music is apt, and it gets you thinking of what you can do with the product even though there's no voice telling you about it
I can't tell you how many times I've watched a video of some poor guy typing out what he'd be narrating annoyingly slow and having to go back and fix typos every other second either with no sound or the most irritating music one could find laid over a blurry video so that you can barely read what's being written anyway. Every time I see one of those, I wish they'd have just done exactly what the video for Tinmark does. It can't be that hard. (It actually isn't, I've done it once for another product).
Oh, and I love the idea of making this free. It's cheap as it is and making accounts read-only after 30-days, at least to me, seems like it'd convert really well. If you invest enough time in the product during those 30 days then it's not a big leap to go from $0 to $2 for the ability to edit again.
Yeah, I'm looking at a similar 'mothballware' plan (for want of a better term) at a similar price point for something I'm currently building. I'd be interested to hear of others' experience of it.
Yes, there's a risk of it seeming like you're cutting off something people are using, but if they're that invested in it, hopefully they won't mind chipping in a modest amount now they know they really do like it.
EDIT: apologies for this being a pretty vapid comment - curled up on sofa, ill.
I don't know what you mean by mothballware. Care to elaborate?
I don't think there's a risk of seeming like you're cutting people off. So long as you're up-front with people when they sign up then there's no problem with this. The value is in the ability to add and edit your bookmarks. Being able to access them later is trivial if you're looking at it from Tinmark's perspective and from a user's perspective this is the same as getting a try-before-you-buy premium account.
On reflection, it's a pretty lame term I tried to coin there. I was looking for something that expressed the idea that after a certain period of time, accounts that weren't dormant would need paying for before in order to be used properly again, so a bit like them being mothballed (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define%3A%20mothballed) and unmothballed when eventually paid for.
Like I said, lame term. Am sure there's a better word out there that'll come to me when my head is clear.
The reason we didn't call it a "free trial" is because you can still keep using the service after 30 days. Some SAAS products have free plans that have caps on the amount of data you can create. We're basically saying the cap of data for the free plan is whatever you create in the 30 days -- that could be hundreds or thousands of bookmarks. You'll still have access to everything you own after the period but more importantly, if you weren't satisfied with the service you can export it all anytime.
Hope that clears things up a bit.
I don't know, suddenly I wasn't so inclined to give it a go. Maybe it's better to be brutally honest.
I think this entire line of discussion is coming from a place of thinking way too much about it. Tinmark's cofounder's answer above is exactly what I was going to say. There's nothing dishonest about and below the headline there are 3 lines of text that very clearly state what a user would be getting. There's nothing ambiguous about the explanation.
Perhaps there is a use case outside mine? I also don't give an iota of a shit about socially sharing my bookmarks.
But yeah pay for one... you'd have to have a special need to pay for one. For reference the one I have been using and enjoy is Kippt (https://kippt.com)
HOWEVER their latest update has broken login on Safari if someone from kippt reads this please please fix it so I can use it on my ipad :)