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Sync Ultra OTP is available for 109,99 € (feddit.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 227 points 3 years ago* (34 children)

With that price I feel like the dev has 0 faith in lemmy getting very big and feels like they need to capitalize on the currently few users to make back costs. I mean, not even an early access price considering its in beta still

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  • [–] 96 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    Yeah this feels like early adopter tax. Get your money off people who don't blink at stuff like $100 for a beta app for a small reddit that's literally just a front end.

    Then lower the price slowly. Like I feel like there are more Lemmy apps than Reddit ones. It's pretty gauling to charge so much and essentially take everything from server owners by putting this up front for people trying it from Reddit.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Server owners aren't the only people who are working for free.

    There are people that have made skins for Lemmy, do they get paid? Mods as well, not to mention the Lemmy devs and admins. And all of this is nothing without people posting content, are you going to pay them too?

    If all one has to do to try and diminish someone asking for a price for their services here is to point out someone else on Lemmy that wants the money too, then everyone looks like a jerk.

    Don't forget, the whole reason Lemmy is so successful these past few months is because the work these devs do wasn't appreciated on Reddit, and we all came here instead. Are you saying all these redfugees should leave and take their money to X instead?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Server owners aren't doing this for free. They are doing it at cost. Some of them quite a bit. I genuinely can't see how you can sincerely equate someone paying thousands of dollars a month to host the infrastructure of Lemmy itself as someone designing a CSS theme in their free time for something that wouldn't exist without the mentioned instance owners. These aren't the same. And this is the first form of mainstream monetization to hit Lemmy at any level past donations and it's aggressive. Childish reply. Someone posting content is not spending a dime but them posting that cost the server hosters one.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    So then donate to your server. But denigrating other people on Lemmy for offering highly anticipated services is appalling. Ask for donations in a more appropriate place. My server was swimming in donations and told us to stop donating. Devs adding to the tapestry of options on Lemmy, whether foss or not, don't deserve to be harassed because you think people's money should go elsewhere.

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  • [–] 82 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    With that price I feel like the dev has 0 faith in lemmy getting very big

    It feels kind of the opposite to me.

    Going back and checking my Google account history, I paid $1 for Sync Pro. In 2012. And was using it up until last month. In retrospect, that was far too low a price for the utility I got out of the app for literally years.

    If anything, it feels like the dev has learned that lesson and has priced the lifetime option where it's actually sustainable for them if Lemmy stays around.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

    Well why not 1usd per month subscription. If 10,20,30 thousand of us subscribed, then he'd have a stable scaling income as the app grows in usage.

    Edit. Thousand

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    I mean, there IS a monthly subscription for $2, so I'm not sure what your point is

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

    The point is, I want a discount. Poor people also want to use Sync.

    And before you ask, I'm in a third world country.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But you can use sync for free. That's why the dev has put options for you. If you cannot pay the ad removal, you can still support the developer by using the app but with ads

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  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The literal opposite. I'm working on this fulltime and giving it everything I can.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    And this is why I don't mind the cost increase from old Sync.

    I bought Sync Pro all the way back in 2014, and considering how long it's been since then, plus the sub-2 month delivery time for Sync for Lemmy, I think you've more than earned an ultra sub from me!

    Thanks for the hard work.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Hey I just want to say thanks for the app. Used sync regularly back when I used to browse Reddit and it must've been the most used app on my phone for years. Sync for Lemmy feels just as good I'll probably switch to the iap for ad free but for now I took the yearly sub just to throw you some money.

    Had been waiting for this since you announced it haha.

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  • [+] 41 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 39 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    $20 to remove ads on an app I'll probably use daily seems to be fair price, from my perspective. But the subscription rubs me the wrong way.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    For a lifetime price of 40 or 50 I'd probably have just bought it and hoped the dev eventually adds /KBin support. For 110 it's off the table for me altogether and I'm not a fan of subscriptions.

    With that said, I've never used this app that I remember on Reddit, so, maybe it is worth it??? I'd probably happily consider a lifetime price of that much if Relay got ported (and basically consider it back pay for getting like 6 or 7 years out of it for like 4 bucks).

    It seems like either the dev is planning on the app running forever and wanting to not make the mistake of charging a couple bucks for a forever license OR they don't expect it to last and need to get as much $ as they can up front. Either way, I wish them the best of luck. Since I'm not a Lemmy user, I won't be buying, at that price.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    That's very cynical point of view. This is for the Ultra version, which incurs recurring cost to the developer for providing extra features which requires running some servers on their side. I myself spent that much just for running a Lemmy server for two months. They still have one time $20 option that don't include services that require the external servers.

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  • [+] 17 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Come on man, no need to make assumption when the ultra feature are listed there in the app setting. At a glance you can see the ones that are potential money sink are push notifications (money goes to firebase/Google), Google translate (money goes to Google), OCR (money goes to GPU vps providers). The original sync ultra even have restore deleted comments option, which mean they was practically mirror Reddit public dataset. At $17 per year or ~$100 lifetime, it's very reasonable, which includes paying the dev as well.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Exactly. Suck the early adopter users dry just in case lemmy doesn't get huge. I mean, yes there was dev time for this app, but of importing your syncreddit press into this app is any indication, it wasn't a rewrite but merely an adaptation of API.

    This is most definitely the dev seeing how much he can milk early on. Good for him if it works. I mean the app framework is amazing, don't get me wrong. But not at these prices.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not milking anything. I want to work on this long term

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Okay, well, thanks but it's too expensive for me. I want to support you but I can't afford that. I would have paid up immediately if it was closer to the old costs, and have been really happy to do so. I've literally been waiting to do that.

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