Folding Text 2.1 out -- now abandoned by Hog Bay

Posted by Andy Brice
Oct 14, 2015 at 05:08 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
>I think you’ve pinpointed the difference, Andy. Making promises and then
>losing interest in your own product is especially galling.

I don’t know anything about this specific case. But if someone made specific promises and then didn’t keep them, that’s obviously not good.

>Let’s face it, there’s always been considerable interest in TaskPaper,
>and indeed in FoldingText. So I’m not sure the making money side of the
>equation was the real issue;

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>But when Folding Text was released, Jesse touted it as his replacement for TaskPaper, which was his replacement for Mori, as he searched for the perfect app.

Paul Korm wrote:
>It’s interesting that the App Store is still selling FT for $29.99. That’s a hefty price for software that’s officially on the edge of its demise.

Maybe the fact that these various folding apps have gone defunct means there isn’t that much money in them? You have to make a lot of $29.99 sales per week to make something comparable to what a skilled developer can make as a salaried employee. Especially when Apple take a larcenous 30% cut and doesn’t let you charge for upgrades. And many people consider $29.99 outrageously expensive in the app store. (Thanks for nothing Apple!)

Productivity apps is a very competitive area. I can only afford to work on Hyper Plan because of the income from my PerfectTablePlan product. Hopefully Hyper Plan will be as successful as PerfectTablePlan one day. But that could take a long time.

> I think it more likely that, as others
>suggest, the developer simply lost interest.

That is possible. Many developers suffer from ‘new shiny thing’ syndrome. But if he was making lots of money from it, he probably wouldn’t have lost interest!

Andy Brice