[crschnick]

I fully get that. The reason why it focuses on the subscription model is that is quite difficult to plan ahead with an irregular revenue stream. Everything is financed via bootstrapping, so I can't afford to burn through money or have irregular revenue over time when planning expenses.

[BehindTheMath]

Doesn't that mean that you're charging extra from those that don't care about updates to subsidize them for those that do?

[crschnick]

I think everyone cares about updates to some degree. Doesn't have to be about big feature updates, just continuous fixes for various small bugs and performance improvements can improve you user experience quite a bit.

If you used XPipe a year ago, it's night and day compared to today in terms of features, stability, and performance.

[whalesalad]

that's how software as a service works.

[bb88]

So typically I'm fine with something like a $50 upfront cost and then $10/year for updates (that actually get updated).

Or maybe a license with $70 with two years of updates included and then $10/year afterward.

Or what Jetbrains does and reduce the cost of the subscription over time, but let the users still use their last version after the subscription ends.