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by alin23 3y ago
Thank you! Wow, that’s.. I’m glad to read all that. Warms my heart.
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by alin23 3y ago
That's a confusion on my part, sorry about that. You are right, the expenses are deducted before profits. In my case, the expenses are so small (<$1k) that they would not significantly affect the final tax to be paid, so I just left
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by alin23 3y ago
Thank you for reading it, and glad you liked it ^_^
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by alin23 3y ago
Thanks! And happy to hear you're doing that! I also asked for a 3-day work week from my last company when I wanted to try and make Lunar paid. It's incredible how much your life changes when you're not defined by your job any
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by alin23 3y ago
The problem for me is not having to pay that tax. The problem is that we as Romanian citizens never see anything good done with them. And that's why I feel the need to complain. We're out of communism for more than 30 years but th
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by alin23 3y ago
Author here! It's a tricky question to answer. I wrote Lunar v1 in 2017, and it was fully free for 4 years, but those years were essential for the app to mature and get a good following. In June 2021 I launched Lunar v4 with the new su
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Costs of running a macOS app studio business(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)
677 points by alin23 3y ago|210 comments
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by alin23 3y ago
Wild! I am working on exactly the same thing now for Lunar ( https://lunar.fyi ), and I'm also calling it Night Mode ^_^ what a coincidence I've been trying to make "white regions in dark backgrounds" less pa
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by alin23 3y ago
I was comparing anti-piracy measures with DRM, I don't have actual DRM in my app. I can't block users that really bought the app from using it (which is what DRM is notorious for). But I do have a license verification for the Pro
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by alin23 3y ago
> What about permitting free usage but restricting support to paying customers? I already provide a generous free version of my app, I can't see how pirating the Pro features, on which I spend an enormous amount of time, c
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by alin23 3y ago
And honest answer: yes. People that would otherwise crack the app, still would not buy the app at my price, but started asking for discounts. Some were also honest enough to tell me that they previously used a cracked version, others I reco
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by alin23 3y ago
I believe in most cases , DRM would not exist if people wouldn't have started pirating digital content. We're also to blame for the state of things. Just like I would not bother to buy and use a bike lock if people would not stea
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by alin23 3y ago
None of my relatives care about remembering passwords, not even those more technically inclined. They create the password, and 30 seconds later forget they even did such a thing. Someone even lost access to their iPhone 8 because after repl
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by alin23 3y ago
Things take significantly more time without documentation. Try reverse engineering something and you’ll wake up 7 days later with almost no result thinking what the heck were you trying to do in the first place. so far it is achieveme
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by alin23 3y ago
Woaaah, always wanted this for searching stuff after bedtime without waking up my wife and dog. Thanks!!!
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by alin23 3y ago
yeaaaaaaah no. Never going this path again for any interactive page. This summer I built an irrigation system for my father's field, with the idea that the scheduling would be done in relative time (water this zone for 2h) instead of a
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by alin23 3y ago
I agree. I was looking for the same thing. They’re not easy to create but side by side code/result demos like the ones I saw on https://imba.io/ make it very clear on what I’ll be getting into as a developer.
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by alin23 3y ago
Thanks for building this, and for the sample code :) Although what sheets excels at is batch editing and collaboration, which is really hard to get in an SQL frontend. My brother usually runs a Raycast workflow I wrote for him to extract a
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by alin23 3y ago
I also have an iOS published app that has a Google Sheets “backend”: https://subsol.one It’s an app for finding parties and festivals in Romania, and the sheets choice makes it super easy for my brother and his friends to add pa
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by alin23 3y ago
To be honest I sometimes (rarely) do get heartfelt messages like these, and it’s what still keeps me working on apps. Sure, it feels ok to sell a bunch of licenses and get a few thousand dollars at the end of the month, but it feels so much
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by alin23 3y ago
As the dev of a macOS app that breaks all the time because of external hardware, the tone of the article hits close to home. (I’m talking about https://lunar.fyi/ whose brightness control commands can be blocked by USB-C
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by alin23 3y ago
Reverse engineering: After reverse engineering parts of the Wii Us' NET stack for another project I was working on, I realized it's using a modified version of NicheStack. That part of the code was reproduced from the aut
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by alin23 3y ago
Reading this on HACK right now, love the app! I’ve actually ditched Octal, specifically because of this notification feature.
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Integrating dynamic binaries in macOS apps(notes.alinpanaitiu.com)
2 points by alin23 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: An open source image/video/PDF optimizer for Mac(lowtechguys.com)
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by alin23 3y ago
Thanks for KeyboardCleanTool! I’ve used it for years, and it inspired me to add a similar function called Cleaning Mode in my Lunar app: https://lunar.fyi/shortcuts#cleaning-mode I needed the MacBook screen and monitors to
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by alin23 3y ago
It's a webpage about a programming language that aids in creating interactive websites. Seems fair.
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by alin23 3y ago
Small world :) I love when these things happen! I still remember the sunny day I was at a Starbucks table with a huge americano and my first second-hand MacBook, stumbling upon Opa and thinking "what a great idea!". It looked so s
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by alin23 3y ago
I seem to haven't learned that yet, as I still use Coffeescript heavily and I'm happy it exists. It's only one data point, but if it makes even just a few people happy, it already has enough reasons to exist. > a new
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by alin23 3y ago
I remember Opa http://opalang.org/ tried something similar at the time when MongoDB was new and modern.

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