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by londons_explore 716 days ago
> One-time payment A license for Faktor is one-time purchase that gives you a life-time license.

While nice for users, this funding model kills anything bigger than a 1 man project in todays world.

Turns out users pay one-time but software developers prefer their salary not to be paid one-time.

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This does look like something a single developer could pull off though?
Yeah, that doesn't mean your users should pay indefinitely because you cannot live off of that product alone. Work on something else.

The world is full of software that thinks it's worth $5/month,and it's not.

Make a software, reach a finish point, stop developing it and work on something else. Then that software can be a one time purchase and if it really needs an update, charge for it.