Show HN: I quit my job and made an automatic time tracker

And... the performance and UI reliability seems to be wildly worse than ever. Pretty disappointed so far. Features have certainly improved, but when I close a sub menu for colour picking or font selection, the menu doesn't go away. Dragging a selection between artboards is choppy as hell, and it doesn't even seem to be using that much ram. It's like they shot themselves in the foot trying to compete with Figma on the collaboration aspect; while the collab functionality seems fine, the main interface is just getting me down.

I am still using 1password 6 standalone though, fuck em it's fine for me.

Instead of going off the active app, doesn't it make more sense to categorize based on the open document, or the folder tree that the document is in?

It really seems we live in a kind of Twilight Zone when it comes to indie software (both productive, as we see here, but also in entertainment) pricing. AAA software (say, stuff being churned out by companies like MS/Apple/Figma/Adobe/etc.) is so aggressively priced, so egregiously recurrent (I actually am not even sure how many hundreds of dollars+ I spend a year on software I probably don't even use, except for maybe a handful of times a year—like Word or PowerPoint). Similarly, games are routinely being sold for 70-80++ dollars.

However, indie games (and as we see here, indie software) is held to this wild and insane standard. To me, even 100 bucks as a one-time-payment for productivity software (that is: something that literally helps you make more money) is kind of a no-brainer. And yet, there is so much pushback here. Even though we all probably pay for Google's garbage, for Apple's garbage, for space we don't use, and so on.

It's kind of how people brutally skewer the $5 Steam indie game, but if the $80 game made by the AAA billion-dollar studio sucks, folks seem to be much more forgiving (looking at you, Diablo 4).

I'm also working on some local-only software I plan on releasing some time this year, and pricing is something I'm very torn on. On one hand, it should be obvious that a one-time fee is the more consumer-friendly option. But something like $10 a month not only probably makes you more money, it also seems to be way more palatable by the general public.

...yep. It gets really tiring. Expectations for even a $5 Steam indie game are really high. Needs to have achievements, leaderboards, steam cloud saves, works on Steam Deck, have online multiplayer, be localized in 8+ languages, accessibility options, controller mapping, have zero bugs, have every single game option you expect in a AAA game, work flawlessly on all platforms with zero bugs, and have 10+ hours of gameplay (but preferably 40+), or else you'll get buried alive in the reviews.

There's a reason it's taken me like 10x longer to get my current game out compared to past games. It's trying to get somewhat close to all these sky-high expectations (also more responsibilities and less energy now that I'm older, though).

I didn't have any of this crap in my old Flash games I used to make (except maybe zero bugs, but even that wasn't always true), and somehow those got played millions of times then. But expectations are much, much higher now.

Granted I would like most of this stuff in the game myself too, it just takes a long time to get it all in there, especially as a solo dev.