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by Krasnol 636 days ago
My first question with such a project are: how will you pay for that service, and what features will I have to pay for in the future?

Don't take me wrong. This is a great idea, and I'll have a dog soon so I'd love to use such a page, but I'll dump my data into this and if I decide to leave because it has become a rip-off in a year or two, I'll still have to go back to some self-hosted solution and extract the data from your page somehow.

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That's the same kind of question I had with other apps, and why I decided to build one myself. I will keep the current features free forever, and add more advance stats, alerts, maybe AI suggestions based on past activities, but those will be on a pro plan for sure. I am also working on a data exporting feature (it's listed in the features section as "soon"), because the data belongs to each dog owner, so it would be fair to let you export it whenever you want. When it come to monetization, there are several ways one can do it, without getting rid of the free tier.
Thank you very much. I'll check it out :)