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Re: How to make an open software successful
- Scritto da: Nycho
Ok, oggi sono in vena, ed ho creato una lista
durante la pausa pranzo, fatemi sapere, sono
abituato a scrivere draft in inglese, scusate gli
errori.
How to make an open software successful for both
niche and masses
- don't try to satisfy just yourself if you want
to make the app successful, try to satisfy others
especially non-technical or business people who
understand very little about techie
stuff.
- Visual appealing, in line with commercial
products, good naming,splash, visual layout and
logo, follow the trend and find what really
count, look at the commercial competitors and ask
to normal users what they like in those
commercial
apps.
- create relationships with business people (not
only techies, they can give you more hands than
techies sometimes), expand the brand of the
product with
them
- launch stable software from the beginning, not
alpha and subversions, masses doesn't like (and a
so-so start can give problems in the future),
they want beautiful and stable products that just
works, only techies are happy with endless
alphas, betas and
subversions.
- for small applications, create partnerships
with other open software and merge interfaces and
create group of software with complementary
visual approach, shared functions keys and other
similarities, look more professional to the end
user with a global visual approach. Would you
dream of having Inkscape, Scribus, Gimp and
Blender with a global graphic approach and their
features displayed in a coherent approach, and
create a suite like open office that could be
installed eventually also as single products?
Eventually choose for example the blender colour
style similar to the latest commercial apps for
every app, and redesign the others to keep some
traits and rounding fonts, colors, windows and
icons? It's a big job, but can you image the
outcome? To me it could be some users unhappy,
but after the initial pain, will be a party and
possibly more used even in professional
environments.
- make the software possible simple to use, and
test it with test users not only geeks and
specific users, but collect feedback from very
normal users and business one without knowledge
of the
software.
- forget the donation concept and possibly try to
think about a commercial open source future with
investments from big companies if necessary, be
appealing in code substance and visual
approach.
- be minimalist and show the functions and
buttons that really matters, and make your
applications portable, lightweight, easy to
install and uninstall, and as much as you can bug
free and
optimized
- create one comprehensive project but still
minimalist and lightweight enough to have
potential, dont make many very small ones that no
one cares in the end or will remember apart from
a niche of
geeks

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