A Product That Hasnt Kept Up

Weve been a Nearpod gold user for several years. Nearpod is one of those SAAS companies that has tried to do a whole bunch of things--but they havent evolved to be particularly stellar at anything. Nearpod tries to be a hybrid between a presentation, collaboration and a feedback tool. However, these days there are many other more feature-rich options on the market--either free or at a fraction of the cost.

Quick example: if youre giving a presentation to a room full of iPads and you decide to insert a video, the videos play asynchronously limiting the features effectiveness. Imagine 50 iPads playing the same video at 50 different timings!

Other features are comparatively expensive. Annotation/note-taking, for instance, is only available with their "school" edition. The price of admission for that starts at $1,200 a year.

Lastly, their sales people are challenging to communicate with. They strike me as product evangelists who believe theyre doing you a favor by giving you an audience. They simply believe their product is completely superior in all aspects and raising an objection seems to ensure a non-response. If this corporate culture is pervasive, Nearpod is likely to end up a casualty of a free market as their marketbase discovers much more effective alternatives.

Were no longer gold users.

JoeGuru about Nearpod