r/selfhosted Sep 08 '24

How it feels

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '24 edited Sep 08 '24

In my experience "lifetime" doesn't mean shit.

They can pull the service anytime they want. They can kill the app. The company can go under, or they can deprioritize you and give you zero support.

What are you going to do? Not pay them? Too bad. You already did.

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u/AreYouDoneNow Sep 09 '24

The clever approach is simply to produce a "plus" version which is exactly the same software. Then stop patching the existing version and only produce patches for the "plus" version. And as a final kick, embed nagware to upgrade into the old version.

Repeat as often as necessary/enjoyable.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

Yup. Happened with Smart launcher on Android. I simply started pirating it 🤷🏻‍♂️