I agree, but I don't think it's equally comparable, and food is too damn expensive to trust most of the time anyway; I feel robbed when I spend $30 on a bad mea

I agree, but I don't think it's equally comparable, and food is too damn expensive to trust most of the time anyway; I feel robbed when I spend $30 on a bad meal. Although $30 for a meal is the same general benchmark I use, $30 isn't as easy to come by these days, and uses physical resources and a logistics chain to get the raw material and do anything with it. The value is concrete, and time us put into each individual product at time of purchase. You don't buy a burger and wonder if you'll get calories from it. With a productivity app, it's worth more if it's worth more, but it's not inherently worth anything as a more abstract intangible good. ~$30-50 is just the value I can imagine deriving from this specific category of app, but everyone's mileage is different. This app would not enable me to do design or development, it's an optimization on a specific corner of my workflow, which is valuable but not immensely valuable, and it's hard to bet on without the previous one being incredible. I love narrow-focus thoughtfully designed software, and pay periodically around that price for Dash, TripMode, Affinity, and various games. Would I pay double or quadruple? Probably not, because I'm fine working around the issue and using the rest of the money for food or other tools that supplement my flow.