Layerpath
Sorry if some of these might come across a bit negative but I think there are still a lot of issues and I wanna know what I get before the deal runs out:
Major Issues:
Export Problems:
- Videos: Often times videos cannot be exported and you’ll receive an error
- Guides: Exporting as HTML or PDF or Word results in messed-up styles, making them unusable
Limited Usefulness of the App:
- Tour feature works really well
- Guides and Videos not really due to the export issues mentioned above.
Manual AI Adjustments Across Tour, Guides, Video:
- Currently, you have to apply AI adjustments separately for the Tour, Guide, and Video. This means crafting a good Tour requires redoing all the AI adjustments for the Guide and Video, resulting in unnecessary extra work.
- Considering the export issues with Guides and Videos, this might not be as critical for now.
Web Requests:
- The Layperath Tour Guide generates over 200 web requests per tour. This means having just two tours on one page can lead to around 400 requests, which seems excessive.
- I’m concerned about whether this level of web requests could impact my website’s performance or raise issues with GDPR (DSGVO) compliance.
Desktop Client Availability:
- It’s still unclear if we’ll receive the desktop client as part of our deal.
- Without the desktop client, the app’s usefulness is significantly reduced. Right now you can also record 1 Tab (not even multiple Tabs) and that for $149.
- For comparison, other apps like Komodo Decks included a desktop app for a lifetime price of just $19 on Appsumo. My main point here is not the price, but just that I am still hesitating whether I should stay with Layerpath and I wanna get confirmation in that buying Layerpath will not turn out to be a bad choice.
Confusing Information about Price Plan / Appsumo Tiers:
- There are multiple sources with conflicting information about what the AppSumo plan includes:
- The AppSumo pricing page
- The comment box on AppSumo
- A Google document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18W2lLc_f1FLojSJN0BFIj_L1YPBWshdbgSnIJQT1avM/edit
The constant switching of features and lack of clarity makes it really confusing to understand what we’re actually getting.
Final Thoughts:
A lot of bugs combined with confusing information on what’s part of the deal and what’s not, make it really hard to know if Layerpath is a good deal. I’m also a bit worried about getting updates in the future as an appsumoling because of the said confusing information.
I hope I can get a bit more of a clarification before the deal expires and get a better idea of what to expect and what not.
Thank you,
Ri