<story><title>I&apos;ve been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years</title><url>https://blog.inkdrop.info/introducing-inkdrop-4-9d0c63de16d2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftzdog</author><text>The author here.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it.
But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources.
This is not a startup.
I would rather like to be small.</text></item><item><author>TheGrumpyBrit</author><text>It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don&amp;#x27;t want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger:&lt;p&gt;1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything.&lt;p&gt;2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test a note taking app - it makes me feel like you&amp;#x27;re going to hold my data hostage unless I migrate away within that timescale. A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit would allow me to test it properly, and it&amp;#x27;s already a part of my workflow by the time I hit the limitations of the free account, so I&amp;#x27;m more likely to actually upgrade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>djm_</author><text>&amp;gt; A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit&lt;p&gt;Eeesh. Be careful taking advice from someone who has no intention of paying now. You&amp;#x27;re doing a great job Takuya, keep on trucking.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;ve been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years</title><url>https://blog.inkdrop.info/introducing-inkdrop-4-9d0c63de16d2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>craftzdog</author><text>The author here.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s interesting and I basically agree with your opinion. You will be more comfortable to try it.
But I suspect that many free riders will come eat the server resources.
This is not a startup.
I would rather like to be small.</text></item><item><author>TheGrumpyBrit</author><text>It looks good, and I like your pricing model more than the Standard Notes one (I don&amp;#x27;t want to drop $149 at once on a web app, but the 75% discount for doing so makes the monthly price seem way too expensive). Two things that stop me pulling the trigger:&lt;p&gt;1. I need a web app. I want to be able to call up my notes from a computer, anywhere, without installing anything.&lt;p&gt;2. A 60 day trial seems like the wrong way to test a note taking app - it makes me feel like you&amp;#x27;re going to hold my data hostage unless I migrate away within that timescale. A much smaller (5-10MB) quota with no time limit would allow me to test it properly, and it&amp;#x27;s already a part of my workflow by the time I hit the limitations of the free account, so I&amp;#x27;m more likely to actually upgrade.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zrobotics</author><text>Another point is that 10mb is a lot of text, especially for users like me who use these types of note-taking apps as todo lists. For persistent notes I already have directory I store locally w&amp;#x2F; cloud backup, but a webapp would be nice for my running todo list.&lt;p&gt;That will hopefully never top 10mb,so a free user like me would really eat into hosting costs. Perhaps a solution to people like the OP who are concerned about data being held hostage is to make it clear that after the trial period their data can be exported, that way they don&amp;#x27;t have to feel there is risk of it being held hostage.</text></comment>