Mint Forum

Hello.

I have an idea about how you may encourage pepper development. What about giving away to the pepper developers licences for the peppers usage? I means its pretty easy to implement a feature, which will submit to the server current used peppers list.

And if somebody will develop pepper, which will be used by X users he got free 1 domain licence :)

It will be attached to the licences, so it will be pretty hard to manipulate that info.

I have few ideas for the pepper development, which will be hot. For example, Adsense clicks stats integrated with IP of the user, channel and page.

But I dont like an idea, that a lot of persons will use my stats for free, but I will need to pay for each domain :)

Great system BTW. Do you have affiliate program? Nobody of my friends heared about this system, but its really hot.

Personally, I feel that third-party development on Mint has remained strong. There are Peppers for the most common statistics tracking needs (some statistics even have multiple Peppers), and Mint customers seem to embrace the add-ons. It’s rare for paid software to have such an active development community.

I can see where you’re coming from though. There are some rare / custom statistics that people want, that not everyone wants. You’re hoping that by offering free Mint licenses some of those Peppers will be developed.

Being a Pepper developer, I can say that I doubt free licenses would have that effect. I guarantee you all Pepper developers bought Mint and then found they needed some functionality which Mint did not offer. I know all of the Peppers I have developed have come out of a personal need. Instead of doing all of that work for myself, I decided it would be best to share my work with others. Now, not every Pepper developer may feel that way, but I’m pretty confident that’s how most developers operate. They’ve already bought Mint and are just sharing their work with others.

If people are looking for custom Peppers, I believe the best way is to personally hire a Pepper developer to develop the Pepper. Most Pepper developers are in the web development industry doing freelance and would be happy to code for a paycheck. I know I’ve seen this done in the past on the Mint forums.

So to sum things up, I feel most of the Peppers which everyone benefits have either been developed already or will be developed if enough people express a need. If there is a custom Pepper that someone needs, the best way to get it developed is to hire a Pepper developer.

well. I bought mint too, but as I understand I will need to pay $30 for each domain where I will need to use it. so few domains licenses if I will create useful pepper will be nice.