Comments on: You don’t know what you’ve got until you get it

By: shane

shane — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:23:45 +0000

I love the photography it is so vivid!

By: Willem

Willem — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:08:23 +0000

Hi Nico, it’s very nice to hear from you again! Thanks for your well worded suggestions, they’re very helpful It’s interesting to see how on the one hand we need to emphasize differences (better) while at the same time emphasize that it is not that big of a stretch from what people are used to.

By: Arjan’s World » LINKBLOG for Aug 26, 2009

Arjan’s World » LINKBLOG for Aug 26, 2009 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:44:43 +0000

[...] You don’t know what you’ve got until you get it – Willem van den Ende ‘ (…) many potential users will have the same idea as me: they already have a solution that works for them, so they are not going to try this new thing out ‘ [...]

By: Nico Mommaerts

Nico Mommaerts — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:12:45 +0000

just some ideas:
-identify the parts that you think are better and enlarge those, focus on marketing those, with a blog, make videos about it, tell about it etc.
- create a familiar environment. for example, firefox imports IE’s bookmarks when installing, users don’t have to start with an empty browser and can start playing with the new features IE doesn’t have (tabbed browsing in IE6)
- your solution to a problem might be superior, but if it is completely alien to the existing solution a user is using, you won’t get much traction. eg I never took the time to look at the Tapestry web framework because I always read it is so different then any other web framework, I look up against the effort I need to invest before I will learn its advantages over conventional frameworks