Comment to 'Pro Apps for Free?'
Comment to Pro Apps for Free?

  • First would you please verify if manual updates are available in the free pro apps plan and the only difference is the paid version allows for auto updates? Personally I think the current pro plan is fair, what I would like to see is a multi site discount for the pro apps. You could also consider X number of pro apps at different prices instead of an all or nothing approach. I use pretty much everything but not every one needs all of them. I would also like to point out that I have setup several sites with the free apps and it’s amazing how much you can achieve with them. I honestly don’t think you can operate a Wordpress or other CMS for much less than $100 per month with all of the plugin and template costs these days. You could always take a page from GCP and AWS start out with a $300 credit to use as you want. Best of luck.

    • Yes, you can download all the new versions of the pro apps in our GitHub repo, however actually applying those updates manually is cumbersome process. We don't mind it, though.

      As for multi-site setups and individual apps pricing - one of the ideas we are considering is something like $1/update pay-as-you-go fee. For example, if you have 5 sites, using 3 Pro apps each - you pay $15 to update them all whenever new versions come out. It's a bit complicated on our end, as we'd likely have to switch to credits system entirely to process micro-payments, but still is very likely option going forward.

      • Pro Apps for Free?

        As a client/user, we can understand that in such a sluggish economic environment, you want to increase your income through various charging methods! 

        However, have you (una.io) thought about it ?! the scale of the una.io project is huge, similar to the current top10 various types of social media and the number of developers in these top10 companies is also huge! 

        The unique feature of the una platform is that it allows clients/users to create their own social platforms and also actually participate in the error reporting before each version upgrade. This error correction process actually saves a lot of human resources for the una development team!

        My suggestion is: the version upgrade still insists on the existing free method for members; for una Pro Apps in the platform, a charging scheme is adopted with a reward mechanism, that is,  the more bugs reported by members in the actual use of the platform, the greater the price discount they enjoy , and even enjoy free prices!