+1 Le 25 sept. 2015 à 17:28, Rick Harrison <harri...@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.macm...@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. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode