Q: I was interested until I was surprised by an answer to someone else's question.
This is why I ALWAYS read every Q&A and Review before buying anything ever on AppSumo. You're not including the ability to Drip Modules/Lessons in any of the tiers offered on AppSumo. This is now a basic functionality of every learning system that has any traction and foothold in the industry. To hold it back saying you'll offer in some Upgrade offer in the future (after you've collected new users through AppSumo) at some undisclosed price totally kills any interest I had in the app. You, of course, would respond that you have to make some money somehow. As a course designer and teacher, having tight control over our product--our course content--is paramount to our ability to making some money somehow. It's not just that we can't test drive this functionality if we buy this deal as a trial run. It's the ideology behind offering an incomplete solution as a lifetime deal. It leads me to worry that this will be a constant pattern with both features access to quality support moving forward with a piece of softrware that would be a foundational piece of my business. Do you have any information you can share about your roadmap and plans for parceling out features to specific subscription tears?
Adrian-forento.io
Aug 20, 2024A: Hey matthew92, thank you for your comment and questions.
I understand that the content dripping feature is crucial for your business, and I understand how it can be frustrating. However, I don't believe it's fair to say that Forento would be an incomplete product without it since we didn't have this feature until very recently.
I also want to mention that this is the first feature that we launched, that was not included in any of our lifetime deals. Ever since first launching on AppSumo two years ago, every single feature we've published has been included at no additional cost to lifetime deal customers.
With that being said, I do understand that the fact that the feature is out of reach to lifetime deal customers is not ideal. We're looking into how we can offer Scale, as a subscription upgrade to those on lifetime deal plans who want to upgrade.
I don't have any list of upcoming features and where they'll be included, but we will keep developing Forento, just as we have until now. The absolute majority of features will be included in the Basic & Start plan (some even in the free plan) but some, premium features will be limited to the Scale plan.
Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions or want to get in touch.
//Adrian at Forento