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Comment on Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind

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Congratulations - looks beautifully crafted. Sadly, MAS and subscriptions (as opposed to a one-time purchase with paid upgrades for major versions) make it a non-starter for me, especially given that it was made with "data longevity in mind".

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I hear you. Trouble is, paid upgrades are tricky to implement in the MAS. About data longevity: if you cancel your subscription, you cannot add new notes, but you retain full access to all existing notes and all features remain active (you can edit existing notes, move stuff around, etc.). A knowledge base that locks you out once you cancel would be of no use...

I agree with this - I can only have so many subscriptions and unfortunately a notes up is not top priority even though it looks really nice.

Yup - was 100% excited and was going to buy it until I saw it's a subscription. Now 100% not excited and not gonna go there.

It just never works out for me to be worthwhile.

Sorry.

How much were you expecting to pay, out of curiosity?

$25 seems to be appropriate for this type of a program.

And if I ended up using it a lot, I'd hope for upgrades and would be happy to pay for them.

What I don't want is to bleed cash. That is a negative feature. Can't tell you how many programs I don't buy because of the SAAS model.

Totally understand. I was just curious. I bought Agenda and paid $25 for it, and then paid another $25 about 15 months later for another year of new features because I was using it so much, but I think I'd probably not have gone for $50 up front.

Totally. Much preferable model.

Same for me, i was interested until i saw it's subscription.

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