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Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.
I use it to clone remotes of "dumb" devices and emulate them with ESPHome to make them "smart" fully offline under my control.
1. They open sourced the entire Software under GPL from the start, and always pushed all their changes to that public github.
2. They supported the first-party firmware for years, including huge rewrites of the interfaces used by applications, etc.
3. They actively involved the community on many topics around the product and were always responsive.
They did their job very well, financed ONLY by one-time sales of hardware. NO subscription or additional licensing fees were ever charged.
There is still alot of potential in the hardware itself (e.g. Bluetooth/BLE, NFC Tag writing,...), and the Community is working on alot of different topics.
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Tl;DR: The Flipper team is free to go and invest resources elsewhere now. Thanks for your support, keep up the great work!
Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.
Is this something you do often? I could see a few use cases and also for copying garage keys. But I don't think I would use it enough to justify the investment
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What's funny, or maybe sad, is that this used to be a solved problem back in the CD-distribution era of software. You buy the software once (or in this case the hardware that comes with a software license). You get bugfix patches and minor updates for a year. Next year the next version releases with major new features, and you either pay the price of an update or you stay on the version you are on. Good incentives fo…
Are you sure that minecraft pioneered that model? It is certainly a very well-known instance of it, but pioneered?
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Which is just another way of saying "this is why most developers prefer subscriptions over one-time sales"
What's funny, or maybe sad, is that this used to be a solved problem back in the CD-distribution era of software. You buy the software once (or in this case the hardware that comes with a software license). You get bugfix patches and minor updates for a year. Next year the next version releases with major new features, and you either pay the price of an update or you stay on the version you are on. Good incentives fo…
That is not to blame him, but I remember his writing being very influential with start up founders.
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Easy fix: Allow donations, merge updates once donation pool is enough to pay for the maintainers' time.
Donating to a russian company with all the sanctions in place?
Tough spot with community that expects firmware updates while hardware sells only once
Easy fix: Allow donations, merge updates once donation pool is enough to pay for the maintainers' time.
I've heard people talk about this "solution" for over a decade, especially with crypto trying to justify itself, but I've never seen it successful.
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i vibed a .ir to tasmota IRSend commands and it is so good.
Can you open source it?
Everyone I know who owns a flipper almost immediately installs some 3rd party firmware like Momentum on it.
There are many good examples of this working out great for the community, one that I am playing with recently is the community firmware for the Synthstrom Deluge music production workstation, where the community is just taking it into the stratosphere in terms of capabilities beyond the original factory firmware.
There will always be folks who want to share their work.
Another good example is the pwnagotchi scene, where the project is kept alive by its users due to the open source nature of the original firmware images.