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0 pointsSemanticStrengh4y ago0 comments

it'd be nice to offer a lifetime license in the future

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pketh4y ago· 3 in thread

I was actually considering that, the only product I know that does a lifetime plan is Roam though. Do you know of any others?

SemanticStrenghOP4y ago

Intellij has (had?) a lifetime license. My POV is that having to pay monthly forever is a psychological burden. Your pricing seems reasonable to me but psychologicaly, some users could pay for a lifetime license and not for monthly one.

Also you could propose a discount for the first year (a common practice)

somebodythere4y ago

Specifically, for a note-taking app, a subscription model is discouraging. I don't want access to the history of my thoughts tied to a recurring payment. On the other hand, if I stopped paying for IntelliJ, I can open my code with any variety of free or paid IDEs (ignoring the fact that I can use a 12-month old version of IntelliJ indefinitely).

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pketh4y ago

> Also you could propose a discount for the first year

Sounds like a good idea, I haven't really seen this myself though, could you point me to some examples?

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