It's my intention to build the company of my life and run the service forever. I hate the idea of a BigCo buying us, shutting down our service, and screwing over all the devs that trusted us. It would have to be a pretty ridiculous amount of money to make me sell out like that (in case you're listening Mark).
I think we just need build trust in the community. That takes time and I accept that.
Obviously I think the benefits of outsourcing your in-app subscriptions to us is well worth it, based on our experience and the engineering time you will be saving, but I might be biased :)
I've grown a lot since the AppLoop days. :)
As far as not losing motivation, I can't prove a negative, so I won't try.
We are not dead if Apple does something to make the system much better, the problem of multi-channel subscription management will still exist for our largest customers.
P.S. Hope L.A. treats you well. I have scooter envy.