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Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app by j1elo on Saturday January 04, 2025 @12:59PM (#42596428)
But this model introduces an incentive to artificially bump the major version ASAP so as to be able to charge again for updates. One way this happens is with feature creep, to justify a new version every few months. A "done" application wouldn't reasonably get a new major version ever, so the software becomes ever-growing and then bloat ends up happening.
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app by layer8 on Saturday January 04, 2025 @01:42PM (#42596712)
There is the counter-incentive that people won’t upgrade if they don’t think it’s worth it. What you describe doesn’t usually happen, in my experience.
Re:Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app by thfuran on Saturday January 04, 2025 @01:30PM (#42596629)
>A "done" application wouldn't reasonably get a new major version ever

Did that company not want to make money? Even if they want to pretend their software is done, there is incentive to just change the name, add a new feature or two, and maybe poke at the UI so it looks different enough to be a definitely new product that you should buy and not mostly the same as last time.