[rovr138]

It’s doable. It’s just you need to know how to make it work. Also keep improving so afterwards people not on those licenses keep buying and paying for it.

Re lifetime licenses, if you offer it for a certain amount of time or until you reach a goal. it can work. At that point, hey! You have funding and you bootstrapped your product/company.

Then you switch to whatever licensing scheme you want.

[hoistbypetard]

I agree that it's doable, but "just ... know how to make it work" might be a higher bar than it sounds like.

It would certainly appear these guys did not know how.