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foooorsyth 2y ago
Good software that you use every day isn’t worth less than a cup of coffee for you? That’s fine, don’t buy it. Good UIs take time and skill to build. Should this student just do this for free? iOS users have money for software they use — $2/mo is perfectly reasonable.
- forger09 2y ago
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- Dalewyn 2y ago
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  - whtsthmttrmn 2y ago
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- dmonitor 2y ago
  I'm not against software subscriptions, but $2/mo is pretty expensive for an alternative to an app that already comes on your phone.
- ndriscoll 2y ago
  A $2/mo subscription is extremely expensive for something that you're going to keep using; the present value is somewhere in the $500-800 range. That's over 20x more expensive than the $25 lifetime purchase, and 3-5x the cost of a lifetime purchase of Microsoft Office Home. You would basically pay for the lifetime license after 1 year. $25 for lifetime is maybe a little expensive for what it is, but whatever. But it seems to me that people have a similar if not worse blind spot with subscriptions as they do with credit card debt. The pricing for subscriptions is always off the charts when you compare present value to the cost of a one-time purchase.
  - scarfaceneo 2y ago
    Most devs nowadays don’t even offer you that option, so kudos for that alone
leokennis 2y ago
If you want to see the free data, bookmark https://www.weather.gov/ https://www.weather.gov/. If that works out for you, fantastic. If you want that data presented in a mobile friendly, quick glanceable way with added device specific creature comforts like widgets, notifications etc. it's $2 a month. I fail to see the rip-off here.
- scinadier 2y ago
  It's a bit obtuse to recommend weather.gov when https://merrysky.net/ https://merrysky.net/ exists.
- sexyman48 2y ago
  How NWS are we talking? Unpixellated penetration?
nicgrev 2y ago
Dude, the developer is a highschooler, calm down. There is also a free version.
dang 2y ago
This comment breaks the site guidelines and especially the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). Please don't do that. This is especially important when kids or students are presenting their work. The last thing they need is to run into a bunch of internet jerks—and it's not who we want this community to be, either. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the rules more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've unfortunately been breaking them in other places too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285885).

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Good software that you use every day isn’t worth less than a cup of coffee for you? That’s fine, don’t buy it. Good UIs take time and skill to build. Should this student just do this for free? iOS users have money for software they use — $2/mo is perfectly reasonable.

forger09 2y ago
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Dalewyn 2y ago
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- whtsthmttrmn 2y ago
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dmonitor 2y ago
I'm not against software subscriptions, but $2/mo is pretty expensive for an alternative to an app that already comes on your phone.
ndriscoll 2y ago
A $2/mo subscription is extremely expensive for something that you're going to keep using; the present value is somewhere in the $500-800 range. That's over 20x more expensive than the $25 lifetime purchase, and 3-5x the cost of a lifetime purchase of Microsoft Office Home. You would basically pay for the lifetime license after 1 year. $25 for lifetime is maybe a little expensive for what it is, but whatever. But it seems to me that people have a similar if not worse blind spot with subscriptions as they do with credit card debt. The pricing for subscriptions is always off the charts when you compare present value to the cost of a one-time purchase.
- scarfaceneo 2y ago
  Most devs nowadays don’t even offer you that option, so kudos for that alone

leokennis 2y ago

If you want to see the free data, bookmark https://www.weather.gov/ https://www.weather.gov/. If that works out for you, fantastic. If you want that data presented in a mobile friendly, quick glanceable way with added device specific creature comforts like widgets, notifications etc. it's $2 a month. I fail to see the rip-off here.

scinadier 2y ago
It's a bit obtuse to recommend weather.gov when https://merrysky.net/ https://merrysky.net/ exists.
sexyman48 2y ago
How NWS are we talking? Unpixellated penetration?

nicgrev 2y ago

Dude, the developer is a highschooler, calm down. There is also a free version.

dang 2y ago

This comment breaks the site guidelines and especially the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html). Please don't do that. This is especially important when kids or students are presenting their work. The last thing they need is to run into a bunch of internet jerks—and it's not who we want this community to be, either. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the rules more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've unfortunately been breaking them in other places too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285885).