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Everyone's trying to get away from their niches, and into anything involving MRR or ad revenue with software & services. It's a sad state of affairs.

chrischen 8y ago
Yea turning everything into a subscription is the hot stuff now, even if it makes no sense to be a subscription. My git client, password manager, have all become subscriptions! Why??
- dwighttk 8y ago
  yeah, I'm never paying monthly for my password manager. Thankfully 1Password let me roll back, but I need to find a new way forward at some point. The funny thing is I'd probably be fine paying more every year or so than I would with a monthly fee.
  - macintux 8y ago
    You know 1Password offers a yearly subscription, right? I too didn’t think I’d switch to a subscription model for it, but it’s such useful software for so many purposes, and I’m very happy if it makes the company more sustainable. It’s hard to make money with software. I don’t begrudge them at all.
    - Dylan16807 8y ago
      It's not "I want the term to be yearly" it's "I would pay for permanent upgrades so they could still get money from me repeatedly without a subscription model" Subscriptions are fine as an offer for software that's getting significant new features all the time. But a password manager is the kind of code that barely needs any devs to keep going once it's already in a good state. And it's the kind of code where integrating an online killswitch is extremely dangerous. There's good reason to stay away from that combination.
      - chrischen 8y ago
        LastPass is also a subscription, but they technically have a free option as well which is not a subscription. At this point I'd buy any password manager that isn't a subscription, but in all likeliness I"ll just start using Apple keychain as it improves.
    - dwighttk 8y ago
      ...year or so... they update to a new version, I pay them when I decide to Not: every 12 months I pay them if I want to keep using my password manager. I do prefer to pay for software. I do not appreciate the sea change toward monthly subscriptions.
dwighttk 8y ago
after a while it's hard to grow your niche... gotta jump into some other place you think you can grow... like cancer.

chrischen 8y ago

Yea turning everything into a subscription is the hot stuff now, even if it makes no sense to be a subscription. My git client, password manager, have all become subscriptions! Why??

dwighttk 8y ago
yeah, I'm never paying monthly for my password manager. Thankfully 1Password let me roll back, but I need to find a new way forward at some point. The funny thing is I'd probably be fine paying more every year or so than I would with a monthly fee.
- macintux 8y ago
  You know 1Password offers a yearly subscription, right? I too didn’t think I’d switch to a subscription model for it, but it’s such useful software for so many purposes, and I’m very happy if it makes the company more sustainable. It’s hard to make money with software. I don’t begrudge them at all.
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    It's not "I want the term to be yearly" it's "I would pay for permanent upgrades so they could still get money from me repeatedly without a subscription model" Subscriptions are fine as an offer for software that's getting significant new features all the time. But a password manager is the kind of code that barely needs any devs to keep going once it's already in a good state. And it's the kind of code where integrating an online killswitch is extremely dangerous. There's good reason to stay away from that combination.
    - chrischen 8y ago
      LastPass is also a subscription, but they technically have a free option as well which is not a subscription. At this point I'd buy any password manager that isn't a subscription, but in all likeliness I"ll just start using Apple keychain as it improves.
  - dwighttk 8y ago
    ...year or so... they update to a new version, I pay them when I decide to Not: every 12 months I pay them if I want to keep using my password manager. I do prefer to pay for software. I do not appreciate the sea change toward monthly subscriptions.

dwighttk 8y ago

after a while it's hard to grow your niche... gotta jump into some other place you think you can grow... like cancer.