<story><title>Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows</title><url>https://bvckup2.com/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latitude</author><text>Author&amp;#x27;s here. A bit of a background on the project if I may.&lt;p&gt;I wrote the original version several years ago. It was purely for myself, to automate the way I was doing the backups at the time. I also threw together a website and put it online, just because and with no hope that something this simple would be in demand. Then went on doing other things like having kids and what not. Fast forward to 2012 and there&amp;#x27;s a couple of thousand people on the mailing list and a trickle of emails asking when an update would come out. So I sat down and did a proper rewrite. I thought it would take 2-3 months, but it took almost a year. And a half. The breadcrumbs of the process are over on the &amp;#x2F;wip page [1]. You might&amp;#x27;ve seen it as it was on HN some time ago.&lt;p&gt;The app is notable for three things - (1) it has a single, simple purpose (2) it is light and &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; fast and (3) it has an &lt;i&gt;excellent&lt;/i&gt; UI.&lt;p&gt;Also of some interest - I ran a 12-month long beta. Started with just 100 people testing private builds for 6 months and then moved on to a public beta for another 6, altogether yielding about 15,000 installs. If there&amp;#x27;s a single takeaway from the project so far - a beta this long is &lt;i&gt;incredible&lt;/i&gt;. It helps shaping the feature set like nothing else and it flushes the most obscure bugs that no formal QA could ever find.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ---
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By the way of introduction - I come from the system programming background. I spent several years writing firmware for network appliances, I wrote a P2P VPN system from scratch and I generally prefer C to Java if you know what I mean. I also get a major kick from doing visual design for my projects and got 2000 followers on Dribbble to prove it :)&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ---
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In any case, there you have it - my take on simple backup software. Let me know what you think. Thanks!&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ---
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[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://bvckup2.com/wip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bvckup2.com&amp;#x2F;wip&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Sukotto</author><text>Consider adding a Corporate tier to your pricing plan&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Corporate
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  - priority support email address
  - early access to new releases
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The features don&amp;#x27;t really matter that much. There are companies that will happily buy the more expensive plan simply because it has the word &amp;quot;corporate&amp;quot; in the title.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s just an initial guess at a price. For a corporate plan it could likely go much higher without you having to provide any real extra service beyond &amp;quot;I will give you the corporate plan email address and promise I always read those emails before the emails of the other plans&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;To take that a step further, you could rename the other plans to &amp;quot;Hobbyist&amp;quot;, and &amp;quot;Small business&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;You could do these things without changing anything else about the app (everyone still gets the same app). You don&amp;#x27;t even have to worry about the annual fee beyond setting up a little system to track when a company&amp;#x27;s year is up and auto-emailing the buyer&amp;#x27;s address asking for more money. If the address no longer works or if they don&amp;#x27;t respond it doesn&amp;#x27;t cost you anything and you&amp;#x27;ve already profited from the larger upfront charge.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Bvckup 2 – Simple Fast Backup for Windows</title><url>https://bvckup2.com/?hn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>latitude</author><text>Author&amp;#x27;s here. A bit of a background on the project if I may.&lt;p&gt;I wrote the original version several years ago. It was purely for myself, to automate the way I was doing the backups at the time. I also threw together a website and put it online, just because and with no hope that something this simple would be in demand. Then went on doing other things like having kids and what not. Fast forward to 2012 and there&amp;#x27;s a couple of thousand people on the mailing list and a trickle of emails asking when an update would come out. So I sat down and did a proper rewrite. I thought it would take 2-3 months, but it took almost a year. And a half. The breadcrumbs of the process are over on the &amp;#x2F;wip page [1]. You might&amp;#x27;ve seen it as it was on HN some time ago.&lt;p&gt;The app is notable for three things - (1) it has a single, simple purpose (2) it is light and &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; fast and (3) it has an &lt;i&gt;excellent&lt;/i&gt; UI.&lt;p&gt;Also of some interest - I ran a 12-month long beta. Started with just 100 people testing private builds for 6 months and then moved on to a public beta for another 6, altogether yielding about 15,000 installs. If there&amp;#x27;s a single takeaway from the project so far - a beta this long is &lt;i&gt;incredible&lt;/i&gt;. It helps shaping the feature set like nothing else and it flushes the most obscure bugs that no formal QA could ever find.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ---
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
By the way of introduction - I come from the system programming background. I spent several years writing firmware for network appliances, I wrote a P2P VPN system from scratch and I generally prefer C to Java if you know what I mean. I also get a major kick from doing visual design for my projects and got 2000 followers on Dribbble to prove it :)&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ---
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In any case, there you have it - my take on simple backup software. Let me know what you think. Thanks!&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ---
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[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://bvckup2.com/wip&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bvckup2.com&amp;#x2F;wip&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1_player</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s his Dribbble page: &lt;a href=&quot;https://dribbble.com/apankrat&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dribbble.com&amp;#x2F;apankrat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;To the author: great work. I love your UI design.</text></comment>