Features of the national reaction to someone else's work or indie development in / for the CIS
I recently published a post about the Soulver calculator application , and then another post about the temporary freeness of our iPhone application (Pushme.to — instant messages for the iPhone and any web browser, for free ), and the feedback that I received makes me sad thoughts.
It so happened that I, while living in Italy for a long time, know Italian, and one more of us is Italian, so we decided to do the application half a year ago in three languages: Russian, English, Italian.
The main one is English, but these two are like a “bonus”. Naturally, they told about the product on local resources.
The reaction of the Italians was instantaneous, and the highly positive "our boys wrote super software" and "download everything", except for the most recent idea of ​​the application, the fact that this was done by the Italian, and in Italian is a huge plus. National solidarity, if you will.
During the free period, the application downloaded (and downloaded) 3000+ people per day.
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Why am I writing this?
And what they say "their"? Then, when it cost 3 dollars, then generally there was nothing like indignation “like a horse price tag for such a d ... but” :) Well, okay, insolvency and difficulty (due to Epl) payment can be understood.
But the post above offered the program for free, so even with new features. The reaction of the vast majority of commentators? “You are inventing a wheel” and “I don’t have an iPhone, and I can't try it, but everyone understands that nobody needs your software” ...
(Not everyone, thank God, thinks so, and we also have excellent users from Russia, but a trend).
At the same time, I naturally make a discount on the fact that users of Habr are not our direct client, and yes, many people don’t need such software. But this does not negate the fact that accusations of “secondary” for such products are past the box office, all instant messengers are secondary, the google wave is secondary, most of the web services are secondary. We solve the problem, and we do it better than the competitors, which confirms the demand.
Now about Soulver - a simple-looking software, made by a pair of talented guys from Argentina, it seems, also received a bunch of reviews in the spirit of “I will write on my knee and why are there 25 bucks”.
It is not the first time that I see such a plan of disparaging or hostile comments on the work of comrades “in the workshop”.
We have not enough (or almost none?), Unlike the US / Europe, start-up incubators, there are no available investments in IT and a favorable climate - so we still have to spit at each other?
My company, and I myself, do not count on the CIS at all - due to the meager percentage of iPhone terminals, payment difficulties and other things - so I have no commercial interest. There is only a stupid, but quite distinct feeling from the series “for the state of insult”. :)
Support the same as you - and will be more successful.
It so happened that I, while living in Italy for a long time, know Italian, and one more of us is Italian, so we decided to do the application half a year ago in three languages: Russian, English, Italian.
The main one is English, but these two are like a “bonus”. Naturally, they told about the product on local resources.
The reaction of the Italians was instantaneous, and the highly positive "our boys wrote super software" and "download everything", except for the most recent idea of ​​the application, the fact that this was done by the Italian, and in Italian is a huge plus. National solidarity, if you will.
During the free period, the application downloaded (and downloaded) 3000+ people per day.
')
Why am I writing this?
And what they say "their"? Then, when it cost 3 dollars, then generally there was nothing like indignation “like a horse price tag for such a d ... but” :) Well, okay, insolvency and difficulty (due to Epl) payment can be understood.
But the post above offered the program for free, so even with new features. The reaction of the vast majority of commentators? “You are inventing a wheel” and “I don’t have an iPhone, and I can't try it, but everyone understands that nobody needs your software” ...
(Not everyone, thank God, thinks so, and we also have excellent users from Russia, but a trend).
At the same time, I naturally make a discount on the fact that users of Habr are not our direct client, and yes, many people don’t need such software. But this does not negate the fact that accusations of “secondary” for such products are past the box office, all instant messengers are secondary, the google wave is secondary, most of the web services are secondary. We solve the problem, and we do it better than the competitors, which confirms the demand.
Now about Soulver - a simple-looking software, made by a pair of talented guys from Argentina, it seems, also received a bunch of reviews in the spirit of “I will write on my knee and why are there 25 bucks”.
It is not the first time that I see such a plan of disparaging or hostile comments on the work of comrades “in the workshop”.
We have not enough (or almost none?), Unlike the US / Europe, start-up incubators, there are no available investments in IT and a favorable climate - so we still have to spit at each other?
My company, and I myself, do not count on the CIS at all - due to the meager percentage of iPhone terminals, payment difficulties and other things - so I have no commercial interest. There is only a stupid, but quite distinct feeling from the series “for the state of insult”. :)
Support the same as you - and will be more successful.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/95652/
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