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Not putting the price on the website is a turn off for me. I don't want to explore a tool without knowing how much it will cost me before hand.

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Good point. We will add more features in the near future, for which users will need to get a license, but our model is very close to what Sublime Text or some others offer, where there is always a free option for evaluation or non professional use.

You might want to change the wording to reflect that. As it stands now, it seems to say "evaluate for free, a license is required for any real use, personal or otherwise". At least, that's how I interpreted it.

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the feedback!

Please don't make me request a demo via email. Upload a video and name your price. I don't want to be convinced by talking with a salesman in a call. If I like what I see in the video, I'll pay for Pro without arguing.

So please make the commercial option more visible and transparent -- without people having to email you.

lol - no worries, there will be no demos.

It looks interesting, but I wouldn't even download or use it for free, knowing I have to send out an email just to find out what the pricing tiers are (even for an individual user) and what is/is not included. Are you willing to publicly share that information?

Since you explicitly mention Sublime Text: their pricing is listed on their website and they have a clear 'Buy' button. Not sure why you would share that your pricing is similar and name a specific product, but also appear unwilling to display what the pricing and featureset is.

It is early days for us! We are not showing the pricing tiers because we don't have them. We jut want to put the free/demo evrsion out there asap, so we can gather feedback. Looking into it now, you are 100% right and it is unfortunate that we "appear unwilling to display what the pricing", it is not our intention at all.

Another weird thing that vendors do is requiring work email. I put my Gmail at internal.io, it wouldn’t let me sign up.

I found two competitors, signed up to both with Gmail and paying for one. Not my loss, doesn’t bother me.

What is the logic behind all these stupid rules? Money is money, customer is a customer whether they have gmail or some other fancy email, right?

I suspect they want to be able to contact your employer and say "$large_number of your employees use our software as individuals, here a all the reasons you should give us a fuckload of money for enterprise-ready best-of-breed annoyance^Wmanagement features".

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