Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Why not make it an even lower price and get the attention of Dealnews.com: "Dev tool that allows even beginners to create desktop and mobile apps--with a $ Kickstarter pledge, normally (if it fails to fund, you still get the app)." Peter On Feb 11, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:

Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
Maybe for me or you, but most people won't be contributing, they will just be using the tool. Some number of them will not want to pledge £640 to then possibly get the commercial license, but they might pledge £150 to definitely get the commercial license. Any new commercial license holders are

Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Monte Goulding
Why would it need to be an instant reward? After reading a couple of Mark's blogs though I think just getting the concentrated effort on refactoring and adding extensibility to the engine will be enough reward. Once done then so many more things will become possible with LiveCode. Not to mention

Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
Right after sending I saw a flaw in my idea, if the £150 deal was part of a reward. It would need to be an instant reward, not a project success one, if that is allowed under Kickstarter rules. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I saw this page, and item 5 in particular: http://www.gamesbrief.com/2012/07/kickstarter-after-the-kick-but-before-the-start/ It gave me an idea. What if you gave everyone who pledged £150 or more a year of commercial license? I mean the current one, not the one that would be there if the proje