Please take this as constructive criticism.
I’m not going to go through each add on and say what I think is or isn’t cool, but the main problem I have with many of these is I don’t get what they do. Or when I do understand what they do I don’t get why doing it as an add on is better.
Like the PayPal and Twitter client. Doing these as a hard coded widget or even dropping the form in as plain text works, so why this way?
Minors confuses me. If I read it right (and I am probably not). It would cause you to create a bunch of orphaned pages, then use those pages as includes in a layout sort of how EE does with invisible pages? Now you have a slew of pages out there with a bit on content on each. That seems weird.
Or like Outfielder, even after reading the description I still don’t get what it does. Ok, so I get what it does, but how is that helpful to me? For nearly half the price of mojo itself I’d hope it does something nearly as cool and I, for the life of me, don’t understand what I’d want it for even if it were free.
If someone were to buy every add on it would cost $140.50 (if my math is right). Obviously no one needs everything, but if you go through the list and pick out the things that most people would (or should want) you still come up with a decent chunk of money.
I guess I’d like to see some in depth descriptions of what each add on does and a live example (screen shots are ok).
I also would like to see some of these features rolled into the core product. I hold out hope that M’Sync, Pieces, and Backup will have their functionality reproduced in MM. If that happens I’ve spent $30 to have the functionality until then. This seems odd to me in that if Derek does roll something like one of these things into the product he could risk coming off like a jerk thief. If he doesn’t roll in something like Pieces then his customers could be resentful that essential functionality is missing (I realize everyone measures “essential” differently).
You may also consider a “professional” level license. Lets say someone launched a business deploying MM sites. Well, buying each add on you would like to deploy to each site is probably prohibitive or just annoying to keep legal on. So volume licensing or package licensing might be cool. ““Pick four for $40” or “10 Pack of Back Up” or “Master Collection Unlimited.”
Or maybe offer something like a $50 a year subscription to the software on your site. Then I don’t have to feel burned if mojo rolls the functionality into the core product or if I decide I no longer care to have my tweets on my page.
So essays on why each product was developed and what need it fulfills would rock. Some insight to the development (a dev blog) would be way cool.
I was going to send this to you in a PM, but I think a lot of it comes off a bit jerkish and it’s not meant to be. Just because I don’t get what a product does doesn’t mean that the people it’s marketed to won’t get it. Also, sorry this rambles.