With every new App published on IOS I wonder again how the financing works. Just through donations, or do you “take one for the team”?

  • timespace@lemmy.ninja
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    1 year ago

    I can understand the financing on for-profit Apps like Sync. Shit costs so much money the dude breaks profit with just one person paying premium.

    Never mind the 100s of hours he spent making the app and not working and getting paid.

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      1 year ago

      Well I mean he got paid before as well during reddit times. From what I heard the app is basically the same switched to the new APIs.

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        1 year ago

        seemingly no matter where or how you say it, if you imply sync costs too much someone will show up to needlessly defend it

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          1 year ago

          uhhh… I guess so?

          My point was that Sync is overpriced, not that devs couldn’t demand money for their work, of course.

          Again, this is only from what I heard, since I didn’t use Sync during Reddit times but apparently it was cheaper back then, so he raised the price for switching from Reddit to Lemmy - which I think is overcharging.

          Of course it’s more than changing some URL, but it’s less work than actually making it from ground up - for which he used to charge less.

          You see my point? Of course you may disagree with me, but I don’t think my point is so outragous that it calls for “insults” (?).

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            1 year ago

            I was going more for the meme then for insulting, sorry. The main problem is the API is very different between the platforms, for what I’ve seen I don’t think this is a trivial task. Also there is a lot more to deal with than when he was developing for reddit, his app account for federation problem/features that aren’t implemented in any other app yet.

            Me personally still prefer Jerboa, but I think the Sync dev deserve credit for his work, and how much he thinks he should charge is subjective.

            As long as this money isn’t going to a big corp this is fine. Also he brought many to the fediverse with his action.

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              1 year ago

              When I say it’s a lot less work than making an app from scratch I’m mainly thinking about the UI/UX design which only had to be adjusted in Sync’s case. I do lots of UI design for private projects and work, so I know that it’s a big part of the workload.

              his app account for federation problem/features that aren’t implemented in any other app yet

              What do you mean? I’m no Sync expert but I did test out the app and didn’t notice any special features. I’m especially interested in instance related tech since that’s kinda the USP of my own App, Nemmy.