So, for the past few months (although mostly in the past month, in fact mostly in a few days last month) I have been working with Richard White on one of his projects SlimTimer. We have just released a new version which includes data exports, backups and premium subscriptions. As Richard points out in his post there are in fact 2 new people to join the SlimTimer team, myself and Daniel Beardsley.

The most interesting thing about the new subscription model is that, like Radiohead’s In Rainbows, you get to decide how much your subscription should be. The system will make a recommendation of a price dependent on your usage – its up to you whether you accept that price or lower it, or even up it!!!

Has to be said PayPal made it far more complicated than it needed to be to add the subscription feature. NOT, I must add from a technical perspective, but from the shear volume of documentation and some quite convoluted navigation on their developer site. I will post how we did it soon(ish).