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Re:Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App by bossyTeacher on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:55AM (#38175407)
Dependency updates, security updates, bug fixes. Yes, if your userbase is in the hundreds of thousands, the one time payments will cover a developer's lifetime of maintenance work. But if you are a random HN dev with a 20-user app, then the 100 dollars, you will not cover a 10 year period of maintenance work, unless your app has zero dependencies and doesn't use any web apis.

Crunchy Bagel is not a random HN dev making a random app. I highly dislike this attitude people have with expecting free work when it comes to software. If the app was sold as it was with 0 additional work of any kind, I bet you wouldn't buy it. You expect free work. But if I ask you to come clean my toilet for free, you wouldn't do it. This is why we have ads on the web nowadays.

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Re:Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App by master-lincoln on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @07:34AM (#38176064)
But the dev here claimed they created this tool for themselves. If that is the case, why not let everyone else use it for free too if you maintain it for yourself anyway.

I wouldn't answer questions or read feedback then as a dev because it's not a product really, but why not go that route?

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Re:Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App by aniforprez on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:21AM (#38176400)
This is very privileged. Opening an app up for public use is exponentially more effort and the developer deserves to be compensated for it
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Re:Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App by master-lincoln on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:16AM (#38203174)
How is it exponentially more effort if you don't care about what the public has to say about the app?
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Re:Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App by bossyTeacher on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @09:34AM (#38177184)
It's the difference between having an internal library at work and having an open source library in github. If you are using it for yourself, backwards compatibility, and breaking things are not necessarily issues
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Re:Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App by master-lincoln on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:18AM (#38203190)
> If you are using it for yourself, backwards compatibility, and breaking things are not necessarily issues

It's also not an issue if you publish it. External users might complain, but that is their problem if you make it clear this is a personal project

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Re:Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App by pantulis on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:37AM (#38178012)
> You expect free work.

Now that's a stretch.

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