If you're using macOS, here you can find my 2 apps: SideNotes and Workspaces. Both discounted 40% and both are one-time-purchase. https://www.apptorium.com/black-friday-2023
Remember sticky notes? They are useful but really messy. So we decided to upgrade them - that’s how SideNotes appeared! And to keep your desktop clean, we moved the notes on the side.
SideNotes keeps handy notes organized in folders. Each note may have a color. Text formatting? Out of the box. Not only Markdown but also tasks, pictures, colors and links. Drop them or create a note right from the pasteboard content. Application might stay on top of other apps or be gently hidden until you need it.
SideNotes is useful and elegant, handy and intuitive. It organizes your thoughts and speeds up your work.
We had lots of ️ to make it and we are proud of this app. It will be our honor if you love it, too.
Any plans to have an option to shrink the note to a smaller vertical size? Right now, every note has a large empty bottom border (where the icons and timestamp go when in edit mode). It would be nice if the note "expanded" on edit (and with minimal animation!) and then shrunk down to a minimal size when exiting edit mode.
A couple other features I'd like to see:
• A preference to reduce the margin/padding around the four sides of each note to make it even more compact
• A way to specify a different "code" font (Pragmata Pro!)
• Reduce the height of the main SideNotes window (where you select a folder) so it's just tall enough to show the existing folders
Keep up the great work on your apps. Your company definitely makes some useful tools. :)
Are there plans to support Apple Notes? Sorry if SideNotes already does this. (I couldn’t find any mention of Apple Notes in the Mac App Store or on the Apptorium website.) If no, why develop another note taking app rather than provide a better front end to Apple Notes? At least then there’d be iCloud sync support ;)
I don't really think that there's a general concept of fair price. I'll come back to the idea that the typical user for your product has probably spent several thousands of dollars on their system. Because the context is productivity, the value of your product to them is not tied to being cheap. It is tied to making the person more productive. For the target user, how much is staying in flow worth over the course of a year?
It isn't a consumer app. It's not going to sell a million copies over two years. Maybe at $4.00 it sells at thousand copies. That means supporting a 1000 users for $4000. At $40.00 maybe it sells 80 copies. $3200 to support 80 users isn't great, but those 80 users made a hard decision based on ROI not low cost. It means that they are more likely to be happy with what it does and live with what it doesn't do. Because all it needs to do is what it says it will do for those users. And $40 is not a lot of money for a productivity boost. $400 isn't either...but that might be stretching it.
Anyway, at $40.00-$400.00 it makes economic sense to talk to every customer, and for what they paid they will not find it objectionable. Anyway, this is something with very low network effects. One user buying it doesn't add value for the next person buying it. Raw numbers of users don't really matter. At best, there's word of mouth benefit from users. That means the product and experience need to be really really good.
I'd say this could be $20 - $30 forever or more. Sublime is $80 for each version, Synergy is $40. That's your market area.
$8 is high for mobile, $8 is CHEAP (it makes it seem like you will cut corners) on PC. Your market isn't casuals, it is hardcore users who will splash the cash for something.
