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Re:Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers by yojo on Monday October 27, 2025 @10:21AM (#45721312)
The HN crowd is touchy on some topics. Don’t take it too personally - good on you for building something cool and shipping it.

FWIW my favorite non-predatory pattern is a level-limited free version with a single “unlock full game” IAP. That way users don’t have to lose their progress switching to paid.

Re:Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers by skeeter2020 on Monday October 27, 2025 @11:54AM (#45722435)
This is just an optimized version of shareware, now that we don't need to mail in a cheque to get the full set of floppies. seems self-defeating to reference anything like "in app purchase" for what's jsut a path for an immediate update after the user completes a known subset of levels.