[swombat]

Actually, I think there'd be less bitching about the price if he removed the paragraph.

Many things that are sold can be had for free if you're willing to put in the effort, but it's a poor salesman who starts his pitch by saying "You really don't need to pay me".

[news-yc]

I actually added that after most of the price discussion (which now seems to have been voted to the bottom of the thread). I would really like to be able to say "pay as much as you want", but unfortunately the App Store doesn't support that. Overall, my goal is not to make a ton of money here. I just want to make as much as people want to give me, with other ways to get it if I don't.

(Again, though, I'm new to this: I'll definitely take your advice for the future, if I do another "open source but paid" app.)

[MaysonL]

I wonder: would Apple allow you to submit a few different copies of the app, with different prices?

[wahnfrieden]

No. Not unless they had different feature sets.

[ralfd]

They did at least once. I used to use an App called Zuginfo which was splitted into a normal free and a "Donation" version which was advertised to further development. (This app by an Indie was later killed by Deutsche Bahn.)

[sovande]

> I just want to make as much as people want to give me

The usual way to do this is to release the app for free and put a (PayPal) donate button on your page...

[PascalW]

Maybe you could do this with in-app purchases. Make the app free and include different items that people can buy for different prices. I'm not sure what that items should be, but I'm sure you can figure out something.

[swombat]

Lol... Oh well, in that case, I guess I'll fall back on the trusted Reddit meme:

Haters will be hatin'.