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I'm always curious to see how people are selling desktop software like this. This developer has many other misc tools for sale on this website. Q: Are mac peop

I'm always curious to see how people are selling desktop software like this. This developer has many other misc tools for sale on this website. Q: Are mac people more likely to look for and buy misc desktop utilities? I wonder about market size vs niche size for windows vs macos vs linux tools. Clearly windows is the biggest market, but I feel like I run into a lot of these niche macos utilities for sale, often here on hackernews. For linux which I'm most interested in, I have a harder time imagining people wanting to pay for a closed source tool. But am trying to note successes with people using patreon, itch.io, or github sponsors.

clircle 2y ago
I buy some MacOS utilities. There are some good ones out there, and I don't mind paying for things that make computers less grating.
Terretta 2y ago
> Q: Are mac people more likely to look for and buy misc desktop utilities? This has been one of the options for well over a decade. And yes. Check out dozens of them less expensively using setapp: https://setapp.com/ https://setapp.com/ Many work on both MacOS and iOS (yes, iOS software paid for through a SetApp subscription).
alwillis 2y ago
These types of utilities have been popular since the classic MacOS days. A few I paid for: * BetterTouchTool * Bartender * Choosy * MacWhisper * Mona * BBEdit * Retrobatch * AirBuddy
- kstrauser 2y ago
  I replaced Bartender with Ice[0] after its new owners[1] did some things I consider sketchy[2]. [0]https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584606 [2]https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/05/bartender-apps-new-owner-has-burnt-years-of-good-will-with-a-lack-of-transparency https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/05/bartender-apps-ne...

clircle 2y ago

I buy some MacOS utilities. There are some good ones out there, and I don't mind paying for things that make computers less grating.

Terretta 2y ago

> Q: Are mac people more likely to look for and buy misc desktop utilities? This has been one of the options for well over a decade. And yes. Check out dozens of them less expensively using setapp: https://setapp.com/ https://setapp.com/ Many work on both MacOS and iOS (yes, iOS software paid for through a SetApp subscription).

alwillis 2y ago

These types of utilities have been popular since the classic MacOS days. A few I paid for: * BetterTouchTool * Bartender * Choosy * MacWhisper * Mona * BBEdit * Retrobatch * AirBuddy

kstrauser 2y ago
I replaced Bartender with Ice[0] after its new owners[1] did some things I consider sketchy[2]. [0]https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584606 [2]https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/05/bartender-apps-new-owner-has-burnt-years-of-good-will-with-a-lack-of-transparency https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/05/bartender-apps-ne...