Maybe mine is too expensive because I have a hard time gaining paid customers.
btw, your blog post really hits the mark.
btw, your blog post really hits the mark.
- You only have VIM/Emacs/Sublime, but we use Eclipse. I know that supporting each and every client is unreasonable, but have you considered writing a client that watches for changes in one or more directories? That way, I could use your tracker even if I wrote in ed (which is the standard editor, as we all know ;)
- The paid feature (more than one week of history) is useless to me, because by Friday I need to take all those hours and push them into our internal system.
In any case, good idea and best of luck to your project! Is there anywhere I can subscribe to receive updates?
You can subscribe to updates here: http://eepurl.com/E5olT Although I haven't sent any emails out yet.
I'm working on adding XCode, IntelliJ, and Eclipse plugins in that order. I'll start sending a newsletter/blog post every time a new editor is supported.
This is one IDE where you will find a lot of enterprise devs.
- XCode is not massively used - Eclipse is free and users might carry the same mentality about plugins - IntelliJ certainly has less marketshare than VS
Good luck.
Are you sure you're building something that fundamentally is valuable enough to an audience that is willing to pay money for it in exchange?
Have you validated that that's true?
I didn't validate the value before building, and justified it because I wanted to use it for myself. So I built a tool for myself and now let others use it.
"Detects project name from repo- so your work is never XXX"
"See logged time per project or branch- so you can see XXX"
Then tell me why I want the investment: "If you value your time at $50/hr then for the price of 11 minutes you can save yourself hours of lost time each month" or whatever the selling point is.
This will have three effects: It will make your pitch more compelling; it will force you to focus on selling the features that matter; and it will allow you to see the features you should add in order to have a more compelling sales pitch.
If you are looking for something to duckduckgo, this is old news, and it comes down to "selling features vs selling benefits" in marketing.
If that rate is under 1% for active free users moving to paying users then it's definitely a value problem. (Active, not just made an account and a capture). If this is the case then you probably need to working on adding additional features that are paid only and valuable.
If the conversion rate is alright but the total number of users is just too low that your paid users is too low, then it's not value problem, but rather a marketing problem. Two options in this case: your product is useful but the people who would use it don't know it exists, or your product is not fitting a market need. I'm pretty sure it's the first case, but validating that is difficult. As it's useful to you and does seem useful, the best step is to just try to get more people aware of the product. I'd recommend writing (or paying someone to write) blog posts detailing how your product is used. Tutorials on starting up a freelance business using your product to keep track of time for clients, or blog posts on time manegement using your product as a center piece would be good. Post those blogs up to twitter, HN, reddit, etc.
I also wasn't very sure about how it was actually doing the tracking and whether that information was A) accurate or B) useful.
Good luck :)
I'm not sure what "team features" are on the Team plan that would warrant such a huge jump in cost. You might want to elaborate on that.
I know that I've evaluated http://letsfreckle.com/ and other similar options in the past. Their copy appeals to me and it easily lets me know what it is they do and how it is valuable to me. But it isn't what I was looking for.
If you can explain yourself similarly, I suspect you'll have success.