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by ukuina 570 days ago
Great-looking website and app. How did you decide on what becomes an IAP and what is core functionality? Why did you disable family-sharing of IAPs (or is that just an Apple quirk on iOS)?
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It grew organically.

Initially I made the app as an experiment, just wanted to see how planets rotate and align, and what makes people interested in that. That became the foundation.

Then somebody asked “can I have some extra asteroids and minor bodies added?” This became the first add-on I have introduced.

Each time I can think of an interesting feature, I think “is there enough standalone value to classify it as an add-on?”. The app is organically growing using the methodology of having the core and extensions.

Family sharing? I never really looked into that. I had maybe two requests over the years. It’s just a different kind of user base.