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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applicati... by silisili on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:12AM (#32875443)
With due respect, have you considered a model of paying once, and again perhaps for major upgrades? Or perhaps a gimped free model with paid features?

Paying monthly for local software feels bizarre to me. At least with SaaS I can kinda justify it as 'not my computer.' That said, ongoing development is worth money, but I can't think of anything I use locally that I do or would pay for on a monthly subscription basis.

That said, it may just be because the idea is new to me. In any event, I wish you luck.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applicati... by nicolaslem on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:36AM (#32875822)
> Paying monthly for local software feels bizarre to me.

I don't like it either but it is actually quite common, Adobe makes a killing doing just that.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applicati... by Deltionsjsj on Saturday September 17, 2022 @07:42AM (#32876704)
Adobe is adobe.

And for the normal adobe person this made high end adobe products suddenly affordable.

PS was 1k while you get it now for 10-30$ / month.

Only two mayor issues with this shit is Lightroom as it got slightly more expensive for seldom users like me and the fact that you can't subscribe to it monthly.

Adobe took the best things from both worlds.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applicati... by gleb-arestov on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:14AM (#32875450)
Yes, I do consider option: lifetime + 1 year updates
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