cbeley

A while back I got some excellent feedback from HackerNews that I think completely made the difference between me having a toy and now having a product that a couple groups now use on a day to day basis. The original post had id 4330459 for those interested.

I took everything to heart, have ended the beta, and am planning to start charging on 1/11/12. On that note, I'm really wondering what people's opinions of my pricing is. Too much, too low? I've gone higher than planned because I had so many people telling me I was underselling myself (including two of my customers). I'm also debating whether to impose a item/entry limit and was thinking of it being 5,000/10,000/30,000 entries for the three plans.

Finally, I'm also interested in any general feedback on the software, the website, and where to go with the weeks up until my "launch" (which, at the very least, I'll have two paying customers to start off).

tl;dr I'd like feedback on everything.

While working as a Unix Systems Administrator (I still do, just with much more limited hours), I use a horrible piece of software called Netdoc (by Brady) for network documentation. It always confused me how something so expensive could be so horrible, so I set out to make something better. After a bit of development and research, I realized inventory software in generally was pretty horrible, so I changed tracks a bit so my software could be useful to everyone from IT professionals to those wanting to keep track of their personal book collections (And be at a price book collectors can afford). A year later (ie: now-ish), I released a free public beta of my better solution to both network documentation and inventory in general. So now, I'm looking to get as much feedback on it as I can to make it even better.

The software is called Flextory, and you can create a free beta account at http://flextory.com, as well as find out more about the software.

Whether you like to just play with and break software or are interested in finding a new inventory solution, I'd absolutely love any feedback you can offer. Also, general feedback or comments about Flextory or even the state of inventory software in general would also be greatly appreciated. I'd like to make Flextory my full-time job one day.

EDIT: I just wanted to point out the Getting Started/Intro guide at http://docs.flextory.com/flextory_introduction , which also has a lot of screenshots and gives an overview of the ideas behind Flextory.