Well to be fair, he’s been building and updating the app for 10 years now and just porting it over to Lemmy recently if you want to look at it that way. It’s not an entirely new app out of the blue.
As someone who bought lifetime ultra on sync for reddit the day he announced the shut down it’s a price worth paying. Used the app for almost 10 years and only paid 5 bucks. He wasn’t sure what was going to happen going forward so I gave what I could in return for that service.
People deserve to be paid for their labor. This is Lemmy; that’s the default position given our history. There are plenty of free as in beer and speech apps out there if someone doesn’t or can’t pay the price.
But software development is hard work, especially if it isn’t a hobby. And a lot of Lemmy apps are hobbyists. That’s the communtiy phase we are in right now. And we are a smaller community, which means fewer paying customers, which means a higher overall cost. LJ can’t throw out an app for $5 and expect a hundred thousand to convert into paying customers off the backs of over a million downloads.
I’ll never understand this criticism of Sync. I hate subscriptions as much as most people, but with software it sort of makes sense because the work never ends. It isn’t like buying a bookcase or any other static item. And Sync, in this case, isn’t like what companies such as LG are doing where they are intoducing forced subscriptions into static firmware to extract maximum wealth from customers.
I mean, yeah, obviously the dev would rather people pay the subscription when some of the Ultra features require server work and/or continued costs (translation, OCR, etc.).
Developing Sync is his full time job, which is why it initially shipped without a lifetime tier. People voiced their opinion and the dev listened by adding the lifetime option and the ad free option. If you don’t like the pricing, use a different app. Nobody is forcing you to use Sync. LJ doesn’t owe you the app for free (or any price outside of what he feels is fair).
So you’re ok with artificial paywalls? Are you the type to prefer to pay a monthly sub to get your heated seats that were already preinstalled in the car but can’t use it fully based on a deceptive design ?
Think the Sync dev said he spent 60 hour weeks working about 6 weeks to get Sync for Lemmy up.
Crazy he’s charging 135$. For his app of that’s all it took to build it. What a scam
Well to be fair, he’s been building and updating the app for 10 years now and just porting it over to Lemmy recently if you want to look at it that way. It’s not an entirely new app out of the blue.
Sync is also being actively developed. It’s getting updated far faster and is far more feature rich than most Lemmy apps I’ve tried so far.
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I got 8 years out of Sync for reddit. You never know.
I also got many years for like four bucks. It kinda of feels like it evens out to me
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People when developers need to pay for their homes and electricity and buy food: this is a fucking scam, absolute bullshit
For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too
For an app’s lifetime, not yours or his.
Obviously? I know there’s a risk and I’ve accepted that.
As someone who bought lifetime ultra on sync for reddit the day he announced the shut down it’s a price worth paying. Used the app for almost 10 years and only paid 5 bucks. He wasn’t sure what was going to happen going forward so I gave what I could in return for that service.
People deserve to be paid for their labor. This is Lemmy; that’s the default position given our history. There are plenty of free as in beer and speech apps out there if someone doesn’t or can’t pay the price. But software development is hard work, especially if it isn’t a hobby. And a lot of Lemmy apps are hobbyists. That’s the communtiy phase we are in right now. And we are a smaller community, which means fewer paying customers, which means a higher overall cost. LJ can’t throw out an app for $5 and expect a hundred thousand to convert into paying customers off the backs of over a million downloads.
I’ll never understand this criticism of Sync. I hate subscriptions as much as most people, but with software it sort of makes sense because the work never ends. It isn’t like buying a bookcase or any other static item. And Sync, in this case, isn’t like what companies such as LG are doing where they are intoducing forced subscriptions into static firmware to extract maximum wealth from customers.
It’s not 135$.
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The one time payment to remove ads costs 17€. It’s not cheap but it’s nowhere near 135€.
Eh, I think they’re talking about ultra
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I mean, yeah, obviously the dev would rather people pay the subscription when some of the Ultra features require server work and/or continued costs (translation, OCR, etc.).
Developing Sync is his full time job, which is why it initially shipped without a lifetime tier. People voiced their opinion and the dev listened by adding the lifetime option and the ad free option. If you don’t like the pricing, use a different app. Nobody is forcing you to use Sync. LJ doesn’t owe you the app for free (or any price outside of what he feels is fair).
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But you don’t need ultra to have a fully functioning app. If you want to pay nothing you can. If you just want to remove ads forever it’s £17.
$20 is still pretty cheap for no ads. That’s less than two months of a streaming service
So you’re ok with artificial paywalls? Are you the type to prefer to pay a monthly sub to get your heated seats that were already preinstalled in the car but can’t use it fully based on a deceptive design ?
You’re really comparing shit practices by already rich auto manufacturers to one guy who developed a very nice app that has non intrusive ads.
To get the initial release out. It’s not like there’ll be no more development after that. Plus, there’s the much cheaper price for just add free.
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That a really weak rebuttal, why even bother with such low effort
If that were true it would still be a good reply since you obviously expended no mental effort in your comment.
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Thats cute
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i’m using it for free
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Which you could remove for far less than what you’re stating.
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It’s a good thing removing ads for a lifetime is only $20 and not $135 like you are saying
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“if that’s all it took”
Are you fucking insane? I’ve never worked that hard in my life and likely neither have you
They ported over the reddit version that had been paying the bills for 8yrs… C’mon
We know it took about 360 hours. That’s a shit load of work and it will a daily job maintaining it. Besides that lifetime price is entirely optional