- The windows/mac installer could have a little dialog saying "the software is free, but if you want storage, you need to pay for it" and send you to open an aws account, or use your gmail account, whatever. It's a UI problem more than a marketing problem.
- If your archetypal mother in law can use Dropbox, she can use syncany with the training wheels on.
- I don't care whether your mother in law uses it, and if you do, it's your job to explain to her why it's better than Dropbox. This is not something like Skype, where the usefulness of the product depends on how many other people are using it. If the only two people in the planet using syncany were its author and myself, I would still find it enormously useful. I would be proselytizing it to my friends and family, though.
- The windows/mac installer could have a little dialog saying "the software is free, but if you want storage, you need to pay for it" and send you to open an aws account, or use your gmail account, whatever. It's a UI problem more than a marketing problem.
- If your archetypal mother in law can use Dropbox, she can use syncany with the training wheels on.
- I don't care whether your mother in law uses it, and if you do, it's your job to explain to her why it's better than Dropbox. This is not something like Skype, where the usefulness of the product depends on how many other people are using it. If the only two people in the planet using syncany were its author and myself, I would still find it enormously useful. I would be proselytizing it to my friends and family, though.