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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 if that's all it took to build it. What a scam
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.
Plus the some ultra features require recurring server costs.
For a lifetime ultra experience. I could realistically get a decade out of it. Ad free is way cheaper too
"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 be a daily job maintaining it. Besides that lifetime price is entirely optional
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.