Feature Exchange Process

[François Chaplais]

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Le 25 sept. 2015 à 17:28, Rick Harrison <harrison at all-auctions.com> a écrit :

> Hi Kay,
> 
> These campaigns were pre-announced to me as a survey, 
> without the details of how long the campaigns were to run, 
> and the other details about funding. I’m shocked to learn
> that they are only 5 days long.  I was expecting it to run for at
> least a month like most other Kickstarter fundraisers.
> There are probably others on the list who assumed the
> same time period. 
> 
> When I received the next email about the announcement
> titled "Prioritize Your Features” the details still were not
> listed in the email.  At that point, my interest started waning,
> because I still wasn’t seeing the basic details.  So, as a user, 
> feeling a little frustrated, I failed to bother to click on 
> any more buttons.  Yes we users are a lazy sort some times
> aren’t we.  Make us click too many times for something, and
> we are gone.  If only I had just clicked one more time most of
> my questions would have been answered.  Ah well, design
> is everything these days.
> 
> I think some users may have expected that 64 bit, and the
> other projects were already in the pipeline to be accomplished,
> and may have put off by asking for funding before a stable
> version of LiveCode 8 has been released.  There is such a
> thing as going to the “Well" too many times too soon.  It takes
> time for the “Well" to replenish the water from the aquifer. The
> pot of gold there only appears rarely.
> 
> Running 4 campaigns at the same time splits the focus.
> Where one campaign may have succeeded on it’s own,
> splitting the vote too may ways can lose the election so
> nothing gets funded.  It might have been better to lump
> all of the campaigns into one large one at a later time,
> and run the campaign longer so there is time to get the
> word around.
> 
> A rare campaign to get funding for a special project like
> the “Community Version” or “HTML5” can work fine.
> As a standard required part of a business model, it
> usually doesn’t work.
> 
> I’m concerned that it’s beginning to sound like
> the company is struggling to meet it’s payroll
> if it feels the need to run so many campaigns to
> keep running.  Heather’s blog entry about money
> not growing on trees hinted this may be the case.
> 
> I think expanding the user base is probably much 
> more important to sustain the company. I believe 
> the LiveCode community would be willing to help 
> out with that goal if a plan with a clear cut 
> approach and achievable goals were mapped 
> out by Kevin. 
> 
> Ok, that’s just my 2 cents for the day.  I hope
> all of your funding goals are reached for every
> project in the next few days if possible.
> 
> I appreciate you taking the time to answer my
> seemingly rather obvious questions too.
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
> Rick  
> 
>> On Sep 25, 2015, at 2:22 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If you were to go to any of the FE Projects you'll see to the right of the
>> big bold project icons it's all stated very clearly.
>> 
>> In summary: 5 days from it's commencement. No money has been paid, you
>> can't be charged now. You will only be charged if the goal is reached.
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