You can preorder Mou 1.0 from our store with 50% discount if you missed our indiegogo campaign!
Update August 31, 2015: We planned to ship Mou 1.0 on August 31, but the new OS X brings serious compatible issue, we're still working on it. Sorry for couldn't ship it on time, we feel so ashamed. We'll update this page upon any news. Until that, please continue enjoy the free Mou 0.8.7 beta, thank you!
Update July 27, 2015: Things goes well, we're going to release Mou 1.0 this August. The release date will be August 31. No more delay this time.
Update April 4, 2015: Mou 1.0 is a little difficult than we’ve expected, we’re still working on several issues, not sure if we can finish it at the end of this month. If we couldn’t, we have to delay, very sorry about this.
Mou, the Markdown editor loved by 300,000+ users
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Mou 1.0 is not only about new features, but also performance improvement and bug fixes.
Mou has been in beta for years, it was once Chen Luo's personal sparetime project. After 3 years of development, more than 300,000 people are using Mou, and this number is keep increasing.
But Chen has never thought of Mou could become so popular today, as the user group grows, more and more feedback comes, he soon realized the bottleneck of one man sparetime development: There're too much planned for 1.0 and there're so little a single developer could do with his sparetime.
To finish the 1.0 goal, early this year, Chen even thought of selling Mou to a team with enough ability, but didn't find a suitable one.
Chen Luo didn't give up, instead of selling Mou to another team, today he is trying to build his own team (25.io Inc), wanting to work full-time on Mou.
We need funds to build the team. We need your help. Your funds could help us hiring extra developers, working full-time on Mou. In return, we'll listen feedback from our contributors, implement the most wanted features, make Mou 1.0 for you.
Previous donators still will get 1.0 license for free, but your contribution here could help us to make Mou 1.0 actually happen.
How Much Funding We Need
Our goal is $20,000 USD. It'll be used to pay basic salary to our developers. It's enough for supporting 1 developer working full-time for 1 year, or 2 developers working full-time for half year. That'll be enough for us to finish Mou 1.0.
Please follow @Mou on Twitter and spread the words to help us to reach the goal, post it on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere you could reach. We appreciate your help!
You know journalists work for tech media? Help us spread the words！
What You Get
The most exciting parts of supporting us is that we listen feedback from our contributors. We'll pick the most wanted features from our contributors, implement them in 1.0. We don't make Mou 1.0 for ourselves, we make it for you.
We'll send a secret email address to our contributors where you can make feature requests to Mou 1.0.
We'll mark our contributors' feedback as high priority compares to non-contributors.
Besides that, you'll also get a license for free when Mou 1.0 releases, and other benefits depends on the amount of your contribution.
- Contribute $10: Mou 1.0 license + Feature requests
- Contribute $20: Mou 1.0 license + Feature requests
- Contribute $30: Mou 1.0 license + Mou Stickers + Feature requests
- Contribute $40: Mou 1.0 license + Jumping Frog + Feature requests
Official Mou Partner:
Being an Official Mou Partner means that we'll place your company's link and logo on the homepage of the most popular Markdown editor on the Mac!
- Contribute $5000: Place your company's link and logo on Mou's official website for at least 5 years! That's only $2.7/day!
Limit to the first 8 companies.
Update October 28, 2014:
coding.net contributed $5,000 and become our second partner!
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Update October 23, 2014:
「知乎」contributed $5,000 and become our first partner!
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When will Mou 1.0 release?
We hope to release Mou 1.0 in early 2015, if we reach the goal. Please follow
@Mou on Twitter and spread the words to help us to reach the goal, post it on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere you could reach. Thank you!
You know journalists work for tech media? Help us spread the words！
Can you open source Mou?
We'll be glad to open source Mou if we can reach $100,000 USD (5 times of our $20,000 USD goal).
If we can't reach $100,000 USD but reached $20,000 USD, we won't open source Mou but will still offer Mou 1.0 license for free to our contributors.
Forget the crappy clones, let's open source the original Mou!
