Fargo times out in June 2017

Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 29, 2016 at 12:24 PM

“Fargo times out in June 2017”

http://scripting.com/2016/08/24/fargoTimesOutOnJune2017.html

“Hearing from Fargo users”

http://scripting.com/2016/08/25/imHearingFromFargoUsersNow.html

I’ve never quite understood the Fargo business model (or the product itself), but apparently it was advertising-based and it didn’t recruit sufficient number of users to make it sustainable. This seems to confirm that perhaps the freemium to subscription model makes more sense for outliner/task manager start-ups (especially in the age of adblockers), such as WorkFlowy, for whom it seems to work. To me the decision was always about weighing up the benefits of Fargo vs. WorkFlowy, and the latter was just a lot more convenient to use across platforms.

hat tip: “On Software Feedback” • Christian Tietze

http://christiantietze.de/posts/2016/08/on-software-feedback/