Paul, these are very help thoughts! I’ll answer here for now:
“Custom goals” really needs a hyperlink. How are they different from what I
can use as a free user?
Settings for custom goals: choosing the good side of the road,
exponential roads (can be nice for weight loss if you want to lose,
say, 1% of your weight per month), picking whether a graph is
auto-summing, what function is used to aggregate multiple points on
the same day (eg, min, max, sum, last, first, mean), whether to plot
all points or only the one that counts.
Right now I don’t think even power users need custom goals very often.
I think that will change; keep an eye on twitter.com/beemuvi !
Beemium is the most adorable portmanteau I’ve ever encountered. I think
you should use it everywhere you normally say “Premium”. (Eg: Beemium users
get priority support.)
I think that one was Andy, and I agree. But if we take your
suggestion, what’s the specific name for the top-tier plan?
The slider isn’t intuitive to me. I did the typical user thing, looked at
the first number that appeared, and thought that the maximum discount is
only 14%. It’s especially confusing because that changes from an “eg” to an
actual discount once you manipulate the slider. I want to pay every six
months, why did the number go down?
Yeah, at first it shows the discount (14%) for yearly but once you
start sliding the slider it shows the actual discount at that point on
the slider.
… will make the longer term packages more attractive.
I’m so enamored with that slider I could slide it back and forth all
day. Note that we aren’t hoping people will pick longer term packages.
We worked out the math (net present value of annuities and whatnot) so
that we’re perfectly indifferent!
(Btw, I’m curious if anyone can figure out how we compute the discount
percentage quoted above the slider. First one to do so gets a Beemium
subscription for the price of Plan Bee (or Plan Bee for the price of
Bee Lite)!)
What happens if I pay in advance for a bee lite plan, and then later wish to
change to a beemium plan? If the longer plans still give me flexibility to
change, I’d like at least a link explaining that.
We totally failed to think of that. I think we should prorate
perfectly fairly if you want to upgrade, but if you want to downgrade
it won’t kick in till your current payment runs out. Otherwise it’s
defeating the point of getting the discount by committing to a longer
period of time. Conveying that concisely is going to be tricky.
How do you automatically pause? Is it length since last data point was
entered?
Yes, if you don’t have any new data in the last month then we don’t
charge you. That applies no matter what amount of time you paid for.
If you’re paying yearly then in a year when it’s time for the next
payment, it won’t happen if you haven’t added data in the last month.
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