Or you can pay subscription, stable revenues, everyone is happy.
How does the business that pays your salary make its money?
Do they pay you for your efforts on a subscription based model or a one time-payment + ownership model?
In broad terms I am tired of having to make a paycheck every month and having a long list of companies wanting to take a slice from it for “making my life magically better”. Hidden price hikes, dark patterns to cancel, etc.
Im also tired of having to pay my employees a slice of my revenue every month for “making my business magically better.” Hidden salary demands, dark patterns to fire them, etc.
I own my car. I own my laptop. Why can’t I own you?
I guess what I’m saying is, why do you think the code you write for your employer deserves to be sold on a subscription model (salary) —- yet you don’t afford the same opportunity to indie developers?
Probably not a good comparison.
But to answer your question - I work on a variety of internal projects for a company that moves freight. Every year I have to justify my salary by either being budgeted to continue supporting a product or by moving to a new product undergoing active development. I'm hardly writing one product and then receiving a unending revenue stream from it.
A: $3/mo
B: $72 with a year of free upgrades
