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by ecf 1041 days ago
Developers who sell out their app to entities like this deserve to be ostracized from the profession.
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devit 1041 days ago
Apparently the perpetrator who sold out their users to the highest bidder is named Benjamin Kramser and they even freely admit the deed on their homepage! (https://www.kramser.xyz/)
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ecf 1041 days ago
> I love to build digital products

Should update that to “I love to throw the people who love my digital products under the bus”

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circuit10 1041 days ago
I don’t think it’s fair to blame the developer unless you can prove that they knew this was going to happen
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ecf 1041 days ago
I’m sure an LLC named TPE.FYI is going to have good intentions with a closed sourced, free menu bar app that’s a gloried AppleScript any junior developer can build in a day.

Developer knew exactly what was going to happen.

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chimen 1041 days ago
yes, you're paying his rent probably right? What did he do? Did he sell his app? I would sell any app I own for the right price btw.
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ecf 1041 days ago
And people wonder why software developers are starting to get bad reputations…
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