XDA Labs originally set out to do a few of these things. https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-labs/ https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-labs/ It tries to provide

XDA Labs originally set out to do a few of these things. https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-labs/ https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-labs/ It tries to provide an alternative to the 30% "platform charge", and offers PayPal and cryptocurrency payments (with real-time approval etc from what I recall). It's hard to gain users on an alternative store, especially when most don't know what isn't available to them. And most also don't see the 30% fee being taken from the developer by the platform. Low cost apps are pretty much unaffordable to do at hobbyist scale when you factor in the platform charge, VAT, and taxes, and I fear for the future with app development heading down the route of only large professional outfits doing so (with their large, professional data gathering and monetisation plans).