BlogBridge for iPhone?
As you all know, we’ve been running a survey of our users about their interest in an iPhone BlogBridge application. In fact, even before getting the final results, we began work on it and it is about half done at this point. Here are the results of our survey, so far:
As you can see, the large majority of our users (around 80%) are either not interested, or would ask for it to be free. This is understandable, given that the majority of our users themselves are using the Freemium version of BlogBridge. This is always as we intended it: BlogBridge is aimed at people with a major info glut problem, and those folks are not the majority. Those folks are happy paying users.
However, this does pose a conundrum for us, the maintainers of BlogBridge. After all you can imagine that developing BlogBridge has not been free, and while we constantly support and add features to the product, we too have to put food on the table and have a roof over our heads.
So we regret to have to say, that at least for the moment, we are suspending work on the BlogBridge iPhone application until we find a way to fund further development. We aren’t talking about that much funding, really, around $5,000 would do it.
We will be trying to get that funding elsewhere; another possibility is that a qualified iPhone open source developer gets in touch with us; we would be willing to put the new code for BlogBridge for iPhone under an open source license, just like BlogBridge itself is today. Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions!
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First thing the iPhone app-market teaches us is that you can develop a free and a paid app and make money with both - with the free on even better than the paid one. You could even make more money with two free apps! How is that? Add Ads to the free app for freemium members, while you have another one (or the same using in-app-purchase) for premium members. Also the one for free members shouldn’t have all features the premium app does. Add small hints on cool features people could have with a premium account. So it’s also advertisement for you & your premium accounts. No magic, just the basic iPhone economy…
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It might be cheaper to develop an Android app, considering Android apps are written in a modified form of Java (so a lot of your code would already work).
Another option is to create online access to feeds (like Google Reader or Bloglines), linked to an individuals account, and have an easy to use mobile page that works in iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. That requires more money obviously, because of the cost of maintaining the backend. Just a thought, though.
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