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• About Subscriptions
  Tuesday, September 17, 2024

  Everyone loves to hate subscription pricing for software. I did, too, for the longest time. My opinion has changed, though. Now, I’m launching my first subscription-based product, and I do so with a good conscience. In this post, I want to explain why. I built the Unlimited Clipboard History App because I had previously purchased a competing product. That product had a single-time payment for purchase, and users celebrated it in the app store for that fact. So many people wrote a review, saying they love the fact that they can buy this product instead of subscribing to a different app—presumably Paste. But here lies the problem. I bought this app and have used it for about two years. I ran into a handful of issues, and I reported all of them to the developer. Some got fixed, some didn’t. S