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One other idea along some of the same lines... I'm currently evaluating Waterhole to serve as a forum for a school and replace a Facebook group. I'm the developer but all of the real stakeholders aren't technical and I'm remote so I have a limited ability to put Waterhole in front of them for evaluation.

I have no problem with paying $300 for great forum software but it would be helpful in my use case to be able to get a trial license that works for 2 weeks or 30 days. Complete functionality, no restrictions but limited operational time.

I'll spend a lot of time trying to customize everything to what I THINK people want and then do some Zoom sessions, but nothing beats people being able to use the product for themselves and forum software is a great example of a product where one developer can't necessarily predict the reactions of everyone that will be using it.

Thank you!

  1. Toby Toby Waterhole Founder Mar 29, 2024
    In reply to G Greg Garrison

    Hi @Greg Garrison, thanks for considering Waterhole and posting your thoughts here. The Free Trial terms state:

    Free Trial: Any person may use the Software in an environment that is purely for the purposes of development and client preview, and only accessible by a restricted number of users (like on a personal computer, on a server in a network with restricted access, or when protecting a staging website with a password that only a restricted number of users know).

    If I'm understanding you correctly – setting up a staging environment, and giving access to the relevant stakeholders for feedback before a production launch, would be compliant with this!