Multiple PINs and pricing

[cadzilla74]

So how do you plan on charging for this? By device? Are you planning on making it possible to add multiple PINs as contacts?

Say I want a HoneyDew with my wife's BB and my Mom's BB ... I don't see any way of doing that right now short of manually changing the PIN in Settings Menu every time. That would be clumsy at best. I assume every device would need to have their own purchase ID? In other words, I can't buy a copy of HoneyDew and sync with another BB unless they also buy a copy? If that is the case then the price-point should be around $1.99 per copy. I really think there's a severe limitation to marketability unless I can choose from a list of entered PINs and the price is kept reasonable.

It does work as promised. I'm running it on my Storm and my wife's BB 8703e and the Sync is almost instantaneous. I found the controls to be a bit more intuitive on her BB. The Storm interface confused me a bit at first. I created a new item and category but didn't realize I needed to press the screen to save the entry. I kept trying to do it through the BB Button and it would get dumped. I eventually figured it all out and now it is simple but it was a bit odd at first.

We'll test it out over the next couple of weeks and see how often we use it ... that will be the ultimate test and should help determine a fair price. Good luck with this app Marcus. It definitely does what it is supposed to, now to see if it grows on us and becomes a must-have ... talk to ya soon.

[marwatk]

Well, pricing is tricky. I wanted to only charge $0.99 per phone, but the app world's price floor of $2.99 makes that difficult. What I'm thinking is that I'll sell it for $1.50 per copy everywhere else and $2.99 on the App World, but if buy from the App World you get 2 licenses. Basically that means wherever you buy it it's $3 combined for you and your sync partner. I'm definitely open to suggestions here, though.

Right now the whole set of lists is completely synced with your sync partner. I had originally planned to allow for syncing different lists with different people, but with the target audience of this app it got too complicated, I think. I may extend it later via an 'Advanced' mode or similar, but for now I wanted to keep it simple and see what the response was.

Thanks for the feedback using the storm, I'll add a button on touch screens to complete the item.

Definitely let me know if you think of anything else and how you like it.

-Marcus

[cadzilla74]

This is getting more popular withy my wife and me the more we use it. I think your pricing idea is a good one.

I'm guessing the Advanced setting in future would allow swapping PINs on the fly? Can you get it to maintain a list of PIN partners and bring up different content (groups and lists) for each one? That would make this a killer app.

I'm thinking along the lines of the way RDM+ works ... I have the client installed on several PCs and each one has a distinct ID number on my Storm. As i switch from controlling one PC to another I hit the Back button to get to the Main Menu and then click on the Computers icon which brings up my list of potential clients. By choosing a new client ID (aka PIN) it effectively ends the conversation with the previous one.

It would be great if you had something like that, where selecting a new PIN is akin to ending a BB Messenger convo and starting a new one and maintaining a separate Group/List file associated with each PIN.

[ylexot]

That would be pretty neat. Then I could maintain shopping lists with my fiance and a task list with my coworker.

[marwatk]

This is close to how I'll end up implementing it I believe. I have a few more issues to work out, but there will eventually be some concept of different sync partners. (I'm actually in the process of setting up a Mac right now so I can port it to iPhone so that you can share lists across phone platforms, too).

-Marcus

[cadzilla74]

This is close to how I'll end up implementing it I believe. I have a few more issues to work out, but there will eventually be some concept of different sync partners. (I'm actually in the process of setting up a Mac right now so I can port it to iPhone so that you can share lists across phone platforms, too).

-Marcus

Wow, cross-platform would really open some great markets for you and some really high-traffic use of HoneyDew for me! Glad to hear the final version will include a multi-contact implementation.

Imagine, an app that brings iPhone and Storm users together ... <sigh> ... you planning on bringing peace to the Middle East next?

[marwatk]

you planning on bringing peace to the Middle East next?

There's an app for that.



-Marcus