Afternoon everyone,

I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap

Pricing

  1. Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)

  2. You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20

  3. Sync Ultra also removes ads but it’s not required

  4. I’ll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks

There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!

I’m going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.

As always thanks for the support and hope you’re liking Sync!

Lj

Edit: testing edit

  • Taeye0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10432·
    1 year ago

    Yeah man…I am a dev myself but $20 to remove ads is just too much, especially without regional pricing.

    • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
      284·
      1 year ago

      $20 once, for an app you’re going to use daily for the foreseeable future mind you, is not the unreasonable take that people on here seem to think it is.

      You get what you pay for, and Sync has proven it’s track record with the Reddit app already. This isn’t just some random app dev asking for money on his bejeweled clone.

      • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        It’s $100 once. The $20 option is a yearly subscription.

        Edit: Some misunderstanding. It’s $20 to remove ads, and $100 to get all features. Maybe the $20 subscription is for full features and removing ads?

        • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          You have completely misread the app. The “Sync Ultra” is not the same as the one-time “Remove Ads” option.

          If you want “Sync Ultra” for a lifetime, it’s $100 or w/e it’s listed as, that comes with all the extra features listed in the app. If you just want to remove ads and use the app without the Ultra features, you only have to pay $20 once.

        • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Re: your edit

          Yes, the subscription option has a monthly/yearly/lifetime structure set at $2/$17/$100 respectively. Each of those unlocks all the Ultra features (which includes removing ads).

          Which is separate from the one time payment of the $20 to only remove ads.

    • SlovenianSocket@lemmy.caEnglish
      1358·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. $5 MAYBE, $20 is out to lunch. And a subscription model for full features? Nah get outta here with that, that MIGHT be worth $20. The direction app development has gone over the last few years is a huge disappointment

      • GinDaHood@lemmy.worldEnglish
        511·
        1 year ago

        $5 as a one-time payment is not enough for a single developer to sustain his livelihood on.

        And ultimately, “worth” is based on what the market decides.

          • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            214·
            1 year ago

            Many of us former Reddit Sync users requested that he make the app for Lemmy, so in a sense we do have a contractor type of relationship with him. Hence why many former Sync users are comfortable paying the amount. I think a lot of people who are complaining about the price are just not the target audience for Sync.

          • GinDaHood@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            I think you’re mistaking value for cost. ljdawson doesn’t work for us and sync is not work for hire. Lawrence is not a contractor nor do we have an employer/employee relationship so we don’t owe him a wage for the work he has done or compensation for his time. We have a customer/vendor relationship, and the only thing that matters to the customer is the value of the end product that the vendor is trying to sell.

            This is a fair response, and ultimately it is incumbent on the developer to create the value-add that justifies the cost.

            I suppose my comment is directed at the sentiment that the developer is “greedy” or trying to swindle consumers in an immature market.

        • Frog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          96·
          1 year ago

          This is by far the best app for Lemmy. By a mile. It’s a lot faster and nicer looking. That said, pricing feels a little steep. Imagine being able to sustain your livelihood on making an app for Lemmy, an otherwise free service providing no additional content. It’s not like we are paying the persons who invest in all the infrastructure for the servers running the Lemmy instances. They provide for the actual service. If a part of the money went to instance servers it would feel way better. Because if they go down, so will Sync.

          Not taking anything away from the massive work Lj is putting into this, but pricing do feel a tad off. If 1500 people subscribe he has a yearly income equal to a decent job. If he gets 5000 subs he will earn almost 100 000 dollars a year. Which in Sweden equals to about 2.5 times of a well paid job. That’s excluding ad revenue from everyone who don’t subscribe or pay for removing ads. Pricing can be fairer without compromising the livelihood of said dev. That’s all.

          • GinDaHood@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            The fair pricing is what the market will tolerate. I’m not saying it’s 100% “justified”; even the dev understands that he needs to tweak it for other regions. But the value add is from the superiority of the app experience, which right now is much better than anything else available (for me; of course this is all subjective). In the future, perhaps other apps will achieve parity with Sync, at which time market forces will cause the developer to course correct on pricing.

            I’ll also add that I purchased Sync for Reddit (Pro) for USD$2 nine years ago. If I get nine years out of Sync for Lemmy that’s a bargain at even 10 times the price (which is the current offering).