Hello,
I hope that when planning the future development--and budget--for Spell Catcher you won't skimp on assuring yourself a fair-market revenue. By that I mean charge a price for both the product and upgrades that reflect your costs to continue development and make a profit.
I'm not complaining that "it doesn't cost enough", but for a solid piece of software that is so essential to so many users I would hate to have its further development dropped someday because I saved $10 or $20 today. Cutesy shareware is fun and can come and go, but Spell Catcher is too important to lose.
Regards.
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Spell Catcher Future
Started by McHargue, Jul 02 2003 12:21 PM
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Posted 03 July 2003 - 04:19 AM
I agree that Spell Catcher is both a valuable and indispensible product that deserves a permanent future in the armament for computer users. I look forward to the OS-X development work that is happening.
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Posted 11 July 2003 - 12:18 PM
Evan,
In previous posts at C & G (may all there quickly find new jobs) you intimated at an update to Spell Catcher X. One that fixed a few bugs (like crashing TexEdit, for example). So, being the curious guy that I am, when do you forsee the update being available to us mortals? I remember you saying that the newer version you had worked on did, indeed, solve some of the known issues with Spell Catcher. I want it, I want it, I WANT IT!
Thanks for a great product and the continuing great support you offer. And wouldn't it be nice to have a new version of Spell Catcher to run with Panther comes out!
Enjoy your new-found chaos.
In previous posts at C & G (may all there quickly find new jobs) you intimated at an update to Spell Catcher X. One that fixed a few bugs (like crashing TexEdit, for example). So, being the curious guy that I am, when do you forsee the update being available to us mortals? I remember you saying that the newer version you had worked on did, indeed, solve some of the known issues with Spell Catcher. I want it, I want it, I WANT IT!
Thanks for a great product and the continuing great support you offer. And wouldn't it be nice to have a new version of Spell Catcher to run with Panther comes out!
Enjoy your new-found chaos.
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Posted 11 July 2003 - 12:26 PM
After perusing some of the other posts in this forum I just wanted to add to my post above: I would of course expect to pay for this as-yet-nonexistant upgrade. You need a revenue stream to get up and going here, I'd imagine, and what better place than existing customers clamoring for your excellent products! Send me an invoice -- I'd gladly pay you in advance!
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Posted 11 July 2003 - 04:58 PM
Martin, on Jul 11 2003, 01:26 PM, said:
After perusing some of the other posts in this forum I just wanted to add to my post above: I would of course expect to pay for this as-yet-nonexistant upgrade. You need a revenue stream to get up and going here, I'd imagine, and what better place than existing customers clamoring for your excellent products! Send me an invoice -- I'd gladly pay you in advance!
There's only so much I can do - and recovering some of the money we lost by getting sales goin is #1 priority.
Then I can finish the update I was working on. But it's not going to happen right away. We are mere mortals here. Might be a couple to three months off (pessimistically), sorry to say.
Evan
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Posted 11 July 2003 - 06:35 PM
While I am a bit taken aback to hear you are mere mortals (!) I'll wait with great anticipation (and patience) for the upcoming release in two to three months. Well worth the modest wait -- and thanks again. A tremendous product and one of the truly must-have utilities on my Mac. (He says, looking at the calendar and drumming his fingers on the desk....)
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Posted 12 July 2003 - 08:04 PM
Just wanted to add my support, Evan
All the best-as we "patiently" wait in the wings
RatsoRizzo
All the best-as we "patiently" wait in the wings
RatsoRizzo
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Posted 16 July 2003 - 03:17 PM
I am a graduate student at the University of Iowa studying American lit. I know quite a few people who use Macs for their work, but none of them have even heard of SpellCatcher. Yet when I describe the concept of a cross-application, universal spell-checker, they get pretty excited. It seems that this is really useful for academics because we need such specialized vocabulary that we're constantly adding words to our spell checker dictionaries.
Maybe you could purchase add-space in the Chronicle of Higher Education or other professional publications for the academic. I want to see SpellCatcher succeed, spread, not just because I want the product to stay around but because I know how useful it would be to my colleagues.
Oh yeah, and when you're done with that, please make an Endnote killer. That app is expensive, but its only competitor (Bookends) is klunky.
Maybe you could purchase add-space in the Chronicle of Higher Education or other professional publications for the academic. I want to see SpellCatcher succeed, spread, not just because I want the product to stay around but because I know how useful it would be to my colleagues.
Oh yeah, and when you're done with that, please make an Endnote killer. That app is expensive, but its only competitor (Bookends) is klunky.
