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    1 year ago

    It’s possible, but if he’s suddenly charging $115 for something that was $35 and that also kinda gets you less then he’s not exactly thinking logically. Or maybe he knows something about market forces that I don’t? Charge triple the price and offer “less” and maybe the people will come?

    He’s a talented dev and I’ve been a long time supporter but he’s really shitting the bed here

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      Reddit = 60000000 daily active users

      Lemmy = maybe somewhere between 50k and 100k daily active users? I feel like that’s being generous

      It’s just economies of scale. He’s selling to a much smaller market

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, don’t forget about the grueling six weeks of development time too, it’s practically Dickensian

        This isn’t a divorce proceedings, a judge hasn’t mandated that I keep Lawrence in the lifestyle that he’s become accustomed to. Not am I responsible for his bottom line, and tripling prices is probably going to hurt him because I assume a lot less people are going to pay it, just because it’s triple the price for a lot less

        Plus people who are inclined to get these lifetime subscriptions probably did already in the Reddit app 13 months ago so they’re a little pissed off about that too, I would imagine. And the fact there has been no attempts to offer discounts or whatever. It’s a swizz

        I don’t give a shit about $115, it’s easy to make $115. It’s just the principle. $50 might be different? I wouldn’t need to think too long before buying that. Or $50 if you had a Reddit Lifetime subscription maybe

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          Add perpetual maintenance and updates to your list… Just because the framework was already there doesn’t mean there isn’t value in the product and the dev can decide what his time and product are worth. Just don’t buy it and use something free.

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            1 year ago

            I’m just going to use the cracked version when it’s released on Mobilism, which will give me all the features for $0. My point is that I wanted to pay and always have paid