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

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s the best app but the pricing is insane. I mean, maybe you have experience from your other apps and you know this is the optimal price, but otherwise, consider changing it. People are surprised by the high price right now.

    If it was me, I would price it like this:

    • Remove ads - $10 lifetime.

    • Ultra - $3 per month, $20 per year, $50 lifetime.

    Those sums are realistic and people are likely to find them acceptable. You would get more users instead of less users paying more.

    But this is just me and I speak only as someone who never had an app in a appstore. Maybe you know better. But that’s what I would do.

  • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I just wanted to say I’m sorry for the backslash you’re getting for charging money.

    I’m also sorry people expect it to be $1 because the Reddit app was $1 back in 1825. I genuinely believe it’s children complaining, because no functioning adult would complain about a price increase when rent has tripled or quadrupled since the $1 Reddit app. It’s also annoying to see that people think that saying they bought the Reddit app for $1 and enjoyed it for 10 years is an argument. It goes to show it was severely underpriced.

    It must be frustrating to have that type of response. Lemmy users seem to be really entitled when it comes to software, and the response you’re getting scares me for the future. I really hope the Boost developer doesn’t cancel his app after seeing how entitled Lemmy users are being right now.

    What frustrates me more is the people complaining are continuing to use the free open source apps. Like great, you already have an alternative you prefer. Shut up. Stop bringing others down.

    I wish you the best. Thank you for choosing to develop for Lemmy. I have my eyes on Boost, but I’m gladly using your free tier for the time being.

    Thanks again!

  • jmeel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hey. Great work putting the app up so soon. There seems to be an issue every once in a while with loading content regardless of the origin Lemmy server. I’m guessing something on the API end. Is the API host specific instances (i.e. is the host of the sync API currently just the Lemmy.world instance)?

    • godless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Every instance is hosting the API for their own users, and unfortunately lemmy.world has plenty of outages recently.

      The way Lemmy works is that when you have an account with lemmy.world and subscribe to a community hosted on lemm.ee (for example), the lemm.ee server copies the content over to lemmy.world, and you see it all “locally”. Hence a lemmy.world server outage reflects what you see with your lemmy.world account. Local communities will always be shown “as local” of course, so a server outage then means it’s completely offline for the time being.

      A quick fix would be to sign up with a smaller instance and subscribe to the communities from there (including the ones on lemmy.world), in that case even if lemmy.world is offline, you would be able to see and interact with their cached copies on the target instance. I’ve made an account with infosec.pub for that purpose.

      • jmeel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ah, I figured there’s that kind of problem. I was wondering if the alternative was that the server running the API were a different process or potentially machine from the one running the web front.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Is there a way to set up my subscriptions first instead of everything? I don’t mind seeing all, but mostly I’d like to see what I’m subbed to first.

  • MoonRaven@feddit.nlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I got the lifetime sync ultra subscription for the reddit app for 34.99 after getting the ad-free version and then the pro version because I really liked it. I only used it for half a year, but hey, I guess that’s the gamble you take with lifetime subscriptions. I now see that the lifetime subscription is €114.99?! Is this a mistake? What is going on here?

    If I compare it to the 18.99 a year price, it’d take over 6 years to break even. If I compare it to the old 11.99 price, it’d take over 9.5 years. I just don’t understand the logic here.

      • MoonRaven@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Mine is, but the app might not be.

        Proof: Sync for Reddit Ultra Lifetime lasted around half a year.

  • RxBrad@lemmings.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I guess a sensible question would be: What is the typical per-user income that the dev gets from ads – say in a year? Take that, multiply by 5 or 10, and it seems like that would be a reasonable one-time payment.

    Maybe that’s $20. I don’t know.

    But to me, twenty bucks seems high, compared to nearly any other mobile app. And there aren’t even servers to maintain, or API fees to pay. It’s just removing ads.

    • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      What is the typical per-user income that the dev gets from ads – say in a year? Take that, multiply by 5 or 10, and it seems like that would be a reasonable one-time payment.

      Pennies. People think you’re making a ton because some YouTubers make millions, but the reality is you get paid $0.006 per ad click.

      • RxBrad@lemmings.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m sure that’s true.

        I mean, pricing at $20 right now for ad-free was probably 100% the right thing to do for the dev. There are clearly longtime hardcore fans who are happily running to pay much that for the app.

        But at some point, those fans will all have paid their money. And that leaves people like me who’d gladly pay $5-10… but $20 just seems a bit too steep on principle. Until the price is slightly less steep, the dev only gets my pennies, instead of years-to-decades worth of my pennies all in one shot.

  • UsernameLost@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Is there any chance of changing the profile view to show overview (posts + comments) like it used to be on Reddit vs having them segregated? Having it separated is a minor annoyance of mine

    Great work on this app. I used Sync Pro for 10 years, this has blown Jerboa out of the water and has really enhanced the whole Lemmy experience for me

    • godless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I believe the lemmy API only shows one or the other. Would be possible to combine it on the app, but not as a native function.

    • zeroxxx@lemmy.my.idEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I evho this. It is annoying since I prefer to see my whole own contents by default.