Presale pricing is weird, or at least unclear. I am totally fine with pricing strategies where you buy a perpetual license for the current major version only but this seems like less than that. It appears that for $10 we can have something available for free that may be updated some unknown amount, but probably without any significant new behavior, and then we’ll get a discount that could very well be less than the $10 we put in.
You could improve the situation by presenting some kind of roadmap and indicating the limit of presale or stating clearly the amount, or a minimum amount, of discount on V1 offered to presale purchasers.
I haven’t yet tried the thing but it looks interesting. It also looks reminiscent of quickly implemented Whisper or GPT-3 front ends released a couple years ago. I’d like to better understand the value you’re providing over Apple Intelligence provided APIs.
Thanks a lot for the thoughtful feedback — I’ll definitely add a roadmap and make the presale terms clearer (e.g. version limits and minimum discounts). That’s very fair.
Regarding Apple Intelligence: you’re right, Apple is integrating more AI features at the OS level, but from what I’ve seen, it’s still quite limited. For example, semantic search are not really handled in a way that solves the problem. Fallinorg is built to work fully offline, across any file type, and with deeper control/flexibility than what Apple currently exposes through their APIs.
Put simply: if Apple ever does this well, great — but right now, I think there’s still a lot of room for a tool that is private, offline, and purpose-built for file management.
Dude.
It’s $10. You’ve got to be joking.
No, I’m not. They asked for feedback and specifically called out their pricing strategy. It’s a critical part of launching a product, it merits thought. You just don’t know enough to recognize its importance.