app-ing an industry won't allow you to charge more for the same service. Real innovation is supposed to bring costs down and productivity up which in turn increase demand for the service.
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1. entry level with zero career progression
2. agile-scrum micro management
3. task oriented, big picture is for business (grown ups)
4. pay is good, starts above other jobs but hits ceiling after 5y
5. introverts only (95% time is spent sitting inside your head)
6. working with code (inanimate matter) is less interesting than working with people,
7. most often you're surrounded by nerds who don't have a life
Surely the above isn't the case if you're in a successful company, but 90% people maintain legacy internal app in a big corpo.
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Hope you got my point. The above are only meant as an example.
Main idea is to cripple* the free tier enough to push a chunk of current users from free into pro. Some will leave but you don't want them anyway (they will never pay).
* how exactly cripple? This is the product design / product-market-fit stage work that was skipped when building jsbin.com
ex. by making the free version (gradually) worse until you see revenue.
ex.
- non pro user pastebins last 5mins, 5 views etc
- non pro users can post 1 pastebin per day (cookies, IP)
- non pro user pastebins are max x characters long.
- you get the idea
- there are clever people on this forum who will come up with good ideas to help you out.
- do everything BUT show ads, PLEASE. Internet's sole purpose is almost all that already.
Working on something similar. Currently supporting Android (draw/view) and HTML5 (view only, mouse zoom/pan).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.writelive
Small showcase:
- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934
- handles more complex drawings: (give it time to load) http://write-live.com/d/7fce10bb-bc39-43d4-a7f1-6bd0d60b9550 http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e
- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...
- Drawings are stored in the cloud, and can be accessed by multiple devices simultaneously: co-drawing, draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934
- handles more complex drawings: (give it time to load) http://write-live.com/d/7fce10bb-bc39-43d4-a7f1-6bd0d60b9550 http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e
- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...
- Drawings are stored in the cloud, and can be accessed by multiple devices simultaneously: co-drawing, draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
Therefore I am working on an app for note taking:
A bit like if google docs had a baby with OneNote
- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934
http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e
- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...
- draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
- vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934
http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e
- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...
- draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e
- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...
- draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
A bit like if google docs had a baby with OneNote
Not sure if I communicated it across: Writelive drawings are always updated in real time. Think shared whiteboard. Co-drawing / co-writing. Currently you can only view via web. Drawing is limited to Android - drawing without a pressure sensitive stylus offers bad experience anyway.
Keeping "real" thickness slows down rendering by a factor of 1.5-2 depending on browser used. Images look better though. I'm not sure what users want at this stage of the project. Perhaps a toggle?
http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e
- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...
- draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab
A bit like if google docs had a baby with OneNote
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.writelive
write / draw on Android tablet & show via web, collaborate in real time & more
http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934 http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e http://write-live.com/d/7e0ba663-14b7-4ffd-ac9f-b26eb8d47d6e
use mouse / wheel to zoom/pan
sample: my GF is drawing at the moment and for another 30mins http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=7e...
You draw on Android (multiple people can co-draw in real time) and also can view docs online (also with realtime updates)
Here's a sample drawing / note http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934
sample diagram http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=2b...
landing page http://write-live.com/
I (co) made a related app (android + html5) - draw / handwrite (vector data format) - ability to synchronously co-draw in real-time - docs stored in the cloud
we're not fully ready for beta, but here goes http://write-live.com/