This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

I get a lot of email from people about Ego that sounds something like, “If you added [this feature] I’d buy it in a second,” or, “Should have support for [this service], then I’d be a customer.” These are some of my least favorite emails to receive for two reasons:

1. You’re not the only person I’m targeting with my application. Often times, the service request is extremely niche—a service that has no API and doesn’t seem to be popular at all.
2. If you don’t want to buy the app now, and it already supports five services (and a sixth coming in 1.4 when Apple approves it), why would you pony up the two bucks for one more service? I just don’t believe you. Furthermore, when you buy an iPhone app you get updates for free—so if you’re looking for [your service] to be added, the best possible way of getting me excited about adding more services is to support the application in the mean time.

I could spend all day adding tons of niche services to Ego, but that isn’t going to happen. So instead, I’d like to add services which serve a large audience and will be useful to most people.

This isn’t to say you shouldn’t suggest services for the Ego—please continue to do so—just remember that adding a vague “or else I won’t buy it” doesn’t help at all.

Also, on a side note, I spend at least an hour a day responding to emails suggesting various services which don’t have an API and in the past few months my replies have gone from being very thoughtful and such to basically one sentence replies (“Sorry, they don’t offer an API”) so I apologize if I seem curt. I don’t mean to be, it’s just I have to write the same email a lot.