Presales question about the future of vbmagazine

[Alfa1]

What are your plans with vbMagazine? Are you planning to further develop it a lot more or is it mostly finished?

Please tell me more about the things you have planned.

[vBcover]

vBmagazine is done. As with any other products there will always be improvments, additions etc ... That's why there are different versions. What's next as far as features are concerned? Depends of customers requests.

[Alfa1]

Are you applying a customer is king approach to new features? (All within reasonable limits) i.e. any sound and interesting feature request gets added.

[vBcover]

Well, my first addition for vBmagazine came from a customer's request: that's the navbar link!!!
I don't create products for myself, but for customers and only by making my customers happy can my business be successful. So the answer to your question is yes.

As far as new addition, selecting articles is a drag and drop process. I had implemented a right click context menu which I was forced to remove because of IE 7.0 incompatibility. So my first priority is to get back to that and get to the bottom of IE 7.0

[Alfa1]

Yes, I noticed that discussion on google groups.

Thanks for your honest answer.

[vBcover]

yeah, that was really nice - but buggy
www.vbcover.com/forums/mytest.php

[Alfa1]

I see that you have updated vbmagazine, but can't find what was changed. If it was anything major, then could you please post an announcement?

[vBcover]

Everytime I change the wording on the description to correct a typo or something, it shows it as updated. All that was added is the navbar links.

[Alfa1]

Ah. I see. thanks.

[Alfa1]

Is there any new functionality planned?

[vBcover]

Is there any new functionality planned?

It depends of what you called new ;)

Not being a customer and not having used the product yet, I could say that all existing functionalities will be new to you... unless you have something specific that you are looking for. :)

[Alfa1]

I am looking for addons that will keep evolving into new development. I think your concept is too good to be a static addon.

[vBcover]

You are really funny you know. You have not even experienced my products, how can you have an opinion about them? You don't really know what's in there, so what's to tell that what you are looking for is not already included? None of my current customers have said anything to that nature.

At least, buy them first before asking for addons that you can't even spell out what you are looking for. Then you can do requests.

It's like going to a car dealer and without even having tried one, you tell the salesman that you are waiting for the car to have wings.

I opened up the store at the end of January, beginning of February and less than two weeks later you started asking for new features that you cannot even defined. Usually this is done by people who have tried the product.

[Alfa1]

I think you have clearly described and showed what your product does. And I do think they are interesting enough to pay the substantial costs for. However the absence of customers on your forum and the absence of development plans / road map are keeping me from buying ATM.

With any new software product customers will request new functionality to satisfy their needs. Since that is not happening here, it makes me wonder if there are more than a few customers.

It is just that I have been using /buying a lot of paid and free software addons for vbulletin. A lot of these projects have ended up dead. And although this says nothing at all about you nor about your reliability, it does add to the hesitation.

Anyway. I am sorry to annoy you. I was honestly interested in your products.

[vBcover]

If you are familiar with vbulletin, you would know that a lot forums are hidden, for customers only.
Please stop wasting both our times asking for new functionalities when you are not aware of existing ones and cannot even articulate what you are lookink for. Having said that, I am closing that thread.