Hey team. Thanks for a great app!
I was just wondering, and not sure if you have already mentioned it, but what is your plan for a funding model for the app in the long term?
Some kind of one-off payment maybe, or a subsrciption model?
After all the crap at Reddit with Christian being essentially priced out of making an affordable app by spez, it’l be interesting to see how you plan to go forwards financially here. I ask this knowing that there will be ongoing costs your side and I would willing to help fund that.
On a side note, I guess Memmy users are signing up through many different instances. Apart from whatever your funding model is for the app, would it be possible to also add a payment option for those who want to donate to whichever instance they use? IMO that’d be a pretty useful extra feature.
Would love to know what y’all think.
The best in my opinion as a user would be to offer a basic version and a very cheap (like 2 or 3 bucks) one time payment premium version which has some convenient features.
I do not pay for premium versions to get rid of ads, and I would hate to see ads in the basic version. I do pay off it’s cheap and I appreciate the dev
An alternative would be what Wikipedia or Ao3 does: a banner pinned to the top indicating their needs.
I don’t think a one time fee that small would be enough, especially as the Fediverse/this instance grows, and while it’d be most convenient to put it straight into the app, as another option, I imagine Apple would swallow a hefty chunk of any earnings.
We would literally never ever put ads in this app lol. Plus its OSS, you could always fork it and remove adds and use it (if you knew how).