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by jmnicolas 2112 days ago
I just wonder what kind of software needs a full time dev once version 2.0 has been released?

What I mean by v 2.0 is major bugs have been found and major missing features have been added.

It seems to me that after that it's just the feature treadmill to justify asking money recurrently.

As a dev myself I understand you want to live of your craft, but as a customer I'm not going to pay all my life for an app, I will find an alternative.

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DAWs (digital audio workstations) have no closed lifetime or defined feature list. The workflows and desired features expand every year. Every once in a while, someone comes up with a game changing idea that rewrites everyone's expectations of what is supposed to be possible (e.g. Ableton Live and their automated fitting of audio to the music grid).