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by chungus 1236 days ago
Interesting! I like the single payment as opposed to a subscription service. How does this compare to pandoc?
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It's a one year license. The FAQ is not clear on whether the software will continue working with an expired license.
Hi, thank you for pointing out the room for improvement on the FAQ. What it attempted to communicate is that the App will indeed stop working after the License expires, so it will have to be renewed at that point
That's terrible. Writing "Buy Now" is dishonest. More like "One Year License Now".

Its license is also linked to the computer it was activated on. Change computers... too bad!

It's particularly egregious where there don't seem to be any substantive further improvements planned, and the underlying engine was not built by you.

I can see how the "Buy Now" text could be misleading. Tbh, that's just the default text that comes with the Paypal button, and it wasn't deliberated crafted that way to mislead buyers. I'll roll out an update to make it more explicit.

> there don't seem to be any substantive further improvements planned

About that, the truth is, it often starts with a use-case as simple as "convert PDF to Word". Improvements usually would come from user feedback, and continuous maintenance. While I deliberately started out to keep the App simple, there's a good chance that features and functionality would expand when user feedback gets in the mix.

I'm saying this from my experience with maintaining IGdm (https://github.com/igdmapps/igdm)

That's awful. Never do this to desktop apps. Their whole point is about reliability and ownership.