XYplorer Beta Club

Anybody interested in trying it? I'll PM you a working key for free...

Don

Count me in, of course! Not sure how good a tester I'll make given my experience and usage patterns but I'd be very happy to give any assist that I can, as you know already!

admin wrote:Anybody interested in trying it? I'll PM you a working key for free...

Don

Is it different from the emulate thing we have now?

What is the home edition? Is it just the one we have with less modules?

EDIT: oops just saw the last release note ...

serendipity wrote:

admin wrote:Anybody interested in trying it? I'll PM you a working key for free...

Don

Is it different from the emulate thing we have now?

It should be identical (apart from Showing "Lifetime License Home" in the About window) -- IF I did not make any mistake. That's what testing is good for...

Just thought if anybody would like to play with a Home version before I release it to the public -- I got some free keys lying around here...

Actually I think I should remove one more feature from the Home Edition. There's too much white space on that "Features" tab...

Question: Which of these features does not belong home?

Icon Overlays Support
Mini Tree
Tags and Comments

EDIT: OK, the likely answer is Support for Icon Overlays.

admin wrote:Question: Which of these features does not belong home?
EDIT: OK, the likely answer is Support for Icon Overlays.

Even though you said 'no' elsewhere, I'd still vote for "Network" related stuff as that typically involves either a business or a more sophisticated home user.

Short answer: keep overlays, drop the other two.
Long....

It depends... are you hoping more to sell the Home edition or push people to buy the Pro edition (and accept a price increase)?

I'd say the Home edition should offer everything WE does (so you'd have to keep overlays), but not a whole lot more. So you could, I feel, get away with removing Mini Tree, Catalog, UDC, Scripting, PFA, Tags/Comments, and server caching. You could go a little further, but not knowing the desired price it's hard to say just how bare you could make it.


That said, if I were a potential customer looking at the inevitable comparison chart and saw that PFA and CKS (and to a lesser degree Catalog) were missing from HE there's no way I'd pay more than $10, maybe $15, for its license. Which means I'd automatically be looking at the Pro edition, and if the price is above $50 I'd really have a hard time making the purchase.

Note that my prices are not about how valuable XY actually is, but rather how much I'd be willing to pay to get away from Explorer. I don't find WE to be so painful (especially in Vista/7) that I'd pay more than $50 to escape.

And you have the non-lifetime license, but I don't believe I'd even give that any consideration as it stands. The lifetime license (and having a history of being portable) were probably my two biggest reasons for originally choosing XY.

TheQwerty wrote:Short answer: keep overlays, drop the other two.
Long....

It depends... are you hoping more to sell the Home edition or push people to buy the Pro edition (and accept a price increase)?

I'd say the Home edition should offer everything WE does (so you'd have to keep overlays), but not a whole lot more. So you could, I feel, get away with removing Mini Tree, Catalog, UDC, Scripting, PFA, Tags/Comments, and server caching. You could go a little further, but not knowing the desired price it's hard to say just how bare you could make it.


That said, if I were a potential customer looking at the inevitable comparison chart and saw that PFA and CKS (and to a lesser degree Catalog) were missing from HE there's no way I'd pay more than $10, maybe $15, for its license. Which means I'd automatically be looking at the Pro edition, and if the price is above $50 I'd really have a hard time making the purchase.

Note that my prices are not about how valuable XY actually is, but rather how much I'd be willing to pay to get away from Explorer. I don't find WE to be so painful (especially in Vista/7) that I'd pay more than $50 to escape.

And you have the non-lifetime license, but I don't believe I'd even give that any consideration as it stands. The lifetime license (and having a history of being portable) were probably my two biggest reasons for originally choosing XY.

OK, good point about the overlays.
Tags/Comments was a stupid idea because it's too hard to take out.
Mini Tree would be easy to take out, but it does not feel good to remove the best feature...
So, I think, I leave it as it is.

The whole "home" thing is a little experiment. Depending on how it works I can always bury it at any point.

admin wrote:Anybody interested in trying it?

Yes.

Hi Don, i just stumble over this FAQ entry.
Do you offer a lite version of XYplorer for free?

Maybe you wanna add smtg like:
No. But maybe you would like to take an look at the XYplorer Home Edition...

Stefan wrote:Hi Don, i just stumble over this FAQ entry.
Do you offer a lite version of XYplorer for free?

Maybe you wanna add smtg like:
No. But maybe you would like to take an look at the XYplorer Home Edition...

Good idea, thanks!