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Yeah, people in this thread are praising the one time purchase but I'm almost seeing it as a red flag - how do we know a niche product like this will stick arou
by jamil7 5y ago
Yeah, people in this thread are praising the one time purchase but I'm almost seeing it as a red flag - how do we know a niche product like this will stick around without recurring revenue? I don't know if that's paid major upgrades or similar.
Edit: As a sibling comment pointed out it does actually do paid upgrades after a year so ignore my comment.
- febeling 5y agoPermanent license with one year of upgrades is - for serious users - a yearly subscription. With a price tag of $25 that sounds quite reasonable and also viable.
- jamil7 5y agoYou're right sorry I totally missed the fine print...
- etherealG 5y agobothers me that it's fine print. why do we all have to resort to dark patterns, even among coders making tools for other coders :(
- febeling 5y agoBy contrast, I thought it's really well presented. It is a permanent license, only the patches are stopping after a year. I was even hoping by myself they have the good sense to offer optional auto-renewal. The larger picture is, selling software somehow is always awkward. Given that, these folks have hit a near optimum, imo. And it's better to pay for a good tool than to find a good tool only to see the vendor go out of business. And that has happened plenty of times.
- spiderfarmer 5y agoThe Affinity Suite does the same and they're still around, even though there's massive competition in Adobe CS competitors.
- jamil7 5y agoYeah good point, but I wonder if their products have a larger market and the price point is about double what this is going for. I also noticed they have an add-ons store, not sure if they take a cut there too?
- dgb23 5y agoThose are very different cases. The adobe suite is bloated, slow, overly complex... There is a very strong niche for a suite or single tools that have better design, performance, integration and UX. Jetbrains dev tools are highly praised just on their own and they have a strong plugin ecosystem (see: Cursive for Clojure). Also these kind of developer tools have to indirectly compete with highly extensible and well established open source alternatives such as Vim, Emacs, VSCode who all have their unique strengths and support tons of languages.
- JaggerJo 5y agoNot the current target audience as my language of choice is not supported, but I'd also prefer a subscription.