[coffeefirst]

Right. Particularly because I know exactly where it's going:

1. I sign up for niche but well-made service

2. I pay $50/year or whatever. I'm fine with that because I'm going to rely on this.

3. Not enough other people do. The service shuts down in 2 years with 30 days notice and I have to find a way to get my data out and into a sustainable format

[adamwiggins]

Yep, the "incredible journey" with a dump of your data in JSON sucks.

Muse is built local-first; all your data is kept locally on device, with the sync server merely a second-tier backup. If we go out of business, you keep all the data on your local device.

That said, apps in the App Store tend to stop working if they don't get regular maintenance[1]. This problem and the one you name is a big one for our industry to improve on IMO. Mark and I talked about that in depth in our podcast on software longevity[2].

[1]: https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/24/apple-now-removing-outdated-a...

[2]: https://museapp.com/podcast/49-software-longevity/

[pbowyer]

Or it goes:

1. I sign up for niche but well-made service

2. I pay $50/year or whatever. I'm fine with that because I'm going to rely on this.

3. Not enough other people do. The service wants to make more money and pivots to enterprise. They don't grandfather old users and the minimum price is now $9.99/mo for a limited feature set, and $14.99/mo (min 3 seats) for the features I used to have