I'm shocked that an indie Mac app that isn't in the app store is trying to get away with selling a $29 license that has no free trial. To Github developers, of all people. Shenanigans.<p>It'd be one thing if you had an awesome video whereby I could see in this in action. Or tons of awesome reviews from people I respect. Hell, I would pay $5 to try it out.<p>But you want me to pay $30 bucks in hopes that this doesn't suck? There is too much competition in this market to even attempt this. This developer is shooting themselves in the foot.
This seems like a cool idea but i'm bewildered by one thing. Why is this a menu item? And does it have hotkeys?<p>Because, for better or worse, my menu bar is essentially full, and I save and manipulate my code and repositories via my keyboard, not my mouse (well that's mostly true. I still browse my git repos using GitX).<p>The workflow ideas seem worth trying, but the interface isn't something I can get with (although i will cop to not having any good ideas on how to improve this. I wonder what a quicksilver-like workflow would be like).
Really surprised to see people balk at $29 for a software productivity tool. I mean, I get it if it's not worth it for you, but I happily paid a similar amount for SourceTree (before it was free ;) ), and pay similar amounts for all sorts of development tools. It doesn't take much productivity gain for these sorts of tools to pay for themselves quickly. This is the sort of thing that a dev lead might buy for his team to teach/enforce the git-flow workflow quickly and easily.<p>We happen to use Mercurial around here, so that was my biggest turnoff, but the rest of the value proposition made plenty of sense to me: Solve one problem. Solve it well. Charge real money.<p>I wish these guys success. :)
I suggest moving your imagery over to a CDN. Chrome network tab clocked your site at taking 30 seconds to load all the images. (I am on a 100mbit connection)
Seems awesome - like a GUI for git-flow.<p>What is the pricing for this? Seems there's a free download at the top, but the bottom says "Buy for $29.99". Might want to make the pricing structure clearer. :)
I'd love to try this, but I'm uncomfortable entering my github username and password - shouldn't apps like this be using oauth instead of basic authentication?<p>Also, the sign in button appears disabled until you actually purchase it (I assume it's not just a bug), which makes the prominent Download link on their site with mostly hidden mention of pricing feel pretty shifty. Behavior like this doesn't instill confidence or trust.
SourceTree has something similar: a GUI for git-flow. Mac has the best tools for git and in linux i can't find something with the quality of SourceTree.<p>link: <a href="http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2012/08/01/smart-branching-with-sourcetree-and-git-flow/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.sourcetreeapp.com/2012/08/01/smart-branching-wit...</a>
I'm truly intrigued and curious... my startup Gitpilot (<a href="http://gitpilot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://gitpilot.com/</a>) is trying to solve a similar problem. Was Wingman conceived from any inspiration of Gitpilot? Truly curious, especially because of the airplane naming scheme.
Command + Return probably isn't the best key combination for this. Most source code editors on OS X use that key combination to insert a new line below the current one regardless of cursor position.
So I was ready to buy Wingman, but then paused and thought. Why isn't this on the App Store? Am I really going to use it? I am all for productivity tools, and honestly willing to pay for anything that makes my life easier, but I think I just need a trial of Wingman, just to make sure it is what I am envisioning.
So this is graphical representation of gitflow... and tied to github... it sounds cool, I am a little suspicious how many people will really need this.
From angry comments I see this is not tied to appstore, kudos for that, hope more devs would do it like this.
Tip.<p>A lot of people will see the name and have the response that I did. Which is that this is likely to be an app that aims to help sleazy pickup artists out.<p>Like it or not that is the immediate association that people have with "wingman".