Suggestions for development of cross-platform Linux Outliner Note-taking software

Posted by David Dunham
Sep 7, 2009 at 05:23 PM

Carrot wrote:

>We don’t really
>have a very strong commercial/ profit motive in making this software- we want to make a
>full featured open-source note-taker for Linux (as our main goal but also
>cross-platform) just don’t want to go broke doing it.

I don’t have any understanding of the Linux market, though I suspect it’s tiny.

On Windows and Mac, you’ll be entering a very crowded market. What will make your app stand out? (For example, in my mind at least, my Opal focuses on ease of use.) Cross-platform isn’t enough, there are enough apps that do it. In other words, what is your marketing plan?

I wouldn’t recommend starting a business to do outliner software. You can certainly make money, but for “we” (multiple developers) to live off is likely to be hard.