[brudgers]

$1-2/year is probably not enough to run a sustainable business model around the software. Basic business overhead of taking and tracking and refunding payments alongside accounting and legal fees will consume a substantial proportion of revenue even with 10k or 20k customers.

That's in addition to supporting that number of customers with bug fixes and updates and newsletters and a website and such. These grow with number of users. If it's a business, it's better to charge real money because doing so will validate (or invalidate) the business quickly and provide the revenue for making it a real business.

[ktta]

You're right, but I felt like atleast that was better than a one time fee for something that had (no offense to creator) no credibility of being a sustainable business, and can shut down at any moment. I didn't even bother to see who the payment processor was. (Note to creator) Having a trustable payment processing system like stripe or even a bitcoin wallet would be better than a random website prompting for credit card details. I don't think even paypal is a good option these days because they can see your personal details.

If it catches on, the creator can always increase the prices and grandfather in the old customers. You might've noticed that the only mention of pricing was for $5 and it talked about simple features for premium users. So I felt like that amount was a good deal since no one would blink before saying okay to a couple dollars a year deal, but have a one time fee, some people won't take the leap of faith.