Re:Tell HN: A Conversation Needs to Be Had over Subscription...
by vektor888 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @01:21AM
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In the past I developed a mobile app that was standalone and users had to pay only once.
Users then started asking extra features and down voted my app when I said I didn't want to implement them.
When the app lost its popularity and was making barely no money, I realized that I was working for free. My user base paid for a product having a well defined set of features and kept asking for more, for free.
Moreover, think about a service that needs to rely on an online backend, for instance to synchronize app data between devices, how are you supposed to do that with a single payment business model?
Users then started asking extra features and down voted my app when I said I didn't want to implement them.
When the app lost its popularity and was making barely no money, I realized that I was working for free. My user base paid for a product having a well defined set of features and kept asking for more, for free.
Moreover, think about a service that needs to rely on an online backend, for instance to synchronize app data between devices, how are you supposed to do that with a single payment business model?