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Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by pantulis »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #7
pantulis wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the regular maintenance costs that are specific to a mobile application? And more importanty, how does the Streaks app from Crunchy Bagel manage to do without subscriptions? My point being that the recurring cost of a developer license can easily be diluted on one-time payments.

Dependency updates, security updates, bug fixes. Yes, if your userbase is in the hundreds of thousands, the one time payments will cover a developer's lifetime of maintenance work. But if you are a random HN dev with a 20-user app, then the 100 dollars, you will not cover a 10 year period of maintenance work, unless your app has zero dependencies and doesn't use any web apis. Crunchy Bagel is not a random HN dev maki…

> You expect free work.

Now that's a stretch.

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by seec »

lnalx wrote: post #39

I ditched all apps for habits, focus, goal oriented. I realized my brain could do that for free and without technology, with some work.

I think most people do not realize that the real secret is just doing the thing most of the time and not overthink the times the thing could not be done. And many don't understand that time is limited but energy and focus also is. It does not matter that stuff are planned/schedule or that there are blocks of "free" time, you really can't maximize efficiency for everything, and it would not make a significant difference anyway. The key is strong focus on what matters and letting everything else in the background.

This is why very often I get absolutely stunned at how much inefficient crap people put up with in their life, of course at the end of the day they have no real time/focus power to do anything worthwhile.

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by degisner »

sneak wrote: post #2

Thank you for not including surveillance in the app. I’m buying it to show my support for this decision, even before I know if I will use it or not. Edit: spoke too soon. It seems to hang on “Loading pricing plans…” so I can’t seem to. It’s good you offer a lifetime plan (the only way I would buy it) but subscriptionware is repulsive. Please consider just not using subscriptions.

Thank you for buying the premium! I don't really love the subscription type of paying as a user as well, so I included the lifetime option.

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by nbbaier »

astromd wrote: post #26

The problem with most habit tracking apps is that they don’t put your habits in context with the rest of the day. For example, let’s say you miss a day reading, and that becomes a pattern. Current apps may not surface the fact that you’ve taken on too many evening commitments because they can’t show you your calendar. I’ve been using Chronicling, another iOS app by an indie dev, and it lets you track just about anyth…

Do you have any of that work written up or the code up somewhere?

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by anconam »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #43
bigblind wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> [...] but subscriptionware is repulsive. Please consider just not using subscriptions. I get where you're coming from, especially if an app has no service component, but it's inevitable if a platform has no good way to charge for upgrades. And as much as some people would like to buy a version of an app once and keep using that same version forever, platforms also make that impossible by changing the environment an…

In the past this was solved by releasing a new major version of the app. Want the new version? Buy it again. Otherwise you could still keep the old version until it broke. Taking away consumer choice is never a good thing and that is exactly what subscriptions are designed to do. Not to mention that subscription pricing is always ridiculously high.

In my opinion having a yearly big release is not great for users. Feature and fixes should that could roll out weekly are artificially delayed to the next major release only because of the pricing model.

Re: Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App

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Post by degisner »

mezod wrote: post #22

The app looks good so far! As the indie developer behind https://everyday.app I'm happy to see more indies joining the market :) You have a lot of work to do ahead!! heheh Cheers and happy to help!

I've just checked Everyday. Such a wonderful app! I'm going to dive deep into the competitors' functionality rabbit hole soon to see how far I can go lol.

Thank you for being polite and positive. Before, I got only bad reactions from other competitors (if they were really competitors).

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