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Is RSS still alive? I'm asking this out of curiosity. I've stopped using RSS long time ago. It has nothing to do with Google Reader. I've stopped using RSS before Google Reader died.
Yeah it's still used.
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What exactly is a native app going to 'track'? It has zero access to your browser.
A native app on windows have full access to your computer and can track just about everything from what you click in the app to passwords entered in other apps and websites.
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What exactly is a native app going to 'track'? It has zero access to your browser.
When you open the app, when you close it, which button you press, which device you are on, which ip address this device is using ... there's a whole lot of things that fall under the general term "tracking". There can be arguments made about if this is good/bad/neccessary/terrible/etc. but it's easily possible and done all the time. Google Analytics makes it easy for example: https://developers.google.com/analytics/d…
It's not like a web-app that uses GA, which in turn means google's internal profile of you shows another app you use/etc.
The creepy level tracking that GA is possible of in a browser isn't quite there in a native app - there's no intrinsic data storage system like cookies that's shared between all native apps and sent automatically with http requests.
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Thank you very much. We are thinking about offering a lifetime membership plan, but need to figure out the details first. How much would you be willing to pay for a lifetime licence?
What I would like to see is a membership where the price drops each year. First year, it's $5/month. Second, it's $4. Third year, it's $3. And so on. Ideally it's free year 6 and from then on as long as you have an active account. But it could be $1/year. I already have enough things I have to pay for every month for the rest of my life.
Is RSS still alive? I'm asking this out of curiosity. I've stopped using RSS long time ago. It has nothing to do with Google Reader. I've stopped using RSS before Google Reader died.
Let me suggest to come up with a different hook. Lack of tracking and lack of ads are two of the fundamental defining (anti)characteristics of RSS. The whole point of RSS is to directly connect individual content providers to individual content consumers. This current hook is like trying to sell pillows on the basis that they don't spontaneously explode.
Well, feedly does inject ads so it is a thing.
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When you open the app, when you close it, which button you press, which device you are on, which ip address this device is using ... there's a whole lot of things that fall under the general term "tracking". There can be arguments made about if this is good/bad/neccessary/terrible/etc. but it's easily possible and done all the time. Google Analytics makes it easy for example: https://developers.google.com/analytics/d…
While I can see some wouldn't accept that level of information gathering, most of that doesn't tell the app author much. It's not like a web-app that uses GA, which in turn means google's internal profile of you shows another app you use/etc. The creepy level tracking that GA is possible of in a browser isn't quite there in a native app - there's no intrinsic data storage system like cookies that's shared between all…
Do not forget that native code running locally is at least as powerful as X, for almost any X that you can use on your computer. (The only thing that's more powerful than that, is native code running locally as root.)
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A native app on windows have full access to your computer and can track just about everything from what you click in the app to passwords entered in other apps and websites.
Thats more of an advert for not using Windows than not using Native Apps.
This is neat. Can I pay a one time fee to run the service myself? Just a simple container or package of some sort. This seems like a neat product, but it’s better for me as a user to pay some amount once than 4/month forever. I want to encourage you to keep building the software, but have to keep my list of monthlies really small.
Regarding ideas on how to charge, I like how https://sketchapp.com handles this. Instead of charging $799 like the old Adobe Photoshop days, they charge a lower one-time price that receives updates for a year. You can choose to stay at that price or upgrade. You also don't need to back pay for years you skip if you choose to upgrade again.