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

  • Ljdawson (Sync dev)OPMEnglish
    35•1 year ago

    I’ve said quite a few times but the ad library isn’t initialised if you pay to remove ads.

    • @teejay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      LJ, first thanks for doing this and bringing us here. You’re a big reason for the spike in lemmy traffic recently and it’s very promising.

      I just wanted to add my $0.02 that the pricing to remove ads seems prohibitively high. I think you could encourage more lost redditors and former reddit Sync users to try this out ad-free with a very low price point. Give it some sort of marketing hype term like “Founder’s Premium”: a one-time payment of $8 gets you sync for Lemmy with no ads, forever. Available to early adopters until Sept 1st.

      Maybe add higher priced tiers for those who have the cash and want to essentially donate / thank the author, and give them bells and whistles like fancy custom name and flair styles to show off.

      Lemmy is new and unknown to a lot of folks. Sync feels like coming back to sit in your favorite comfy chair, but in a strange and foreign house. So people are going to be wary. Asking them to either subscribe or pay a huge one time premium is going to discourage folks at a critical time where they should be encouraged instead.

    • @Atroxus@lemmy.caEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      Hi LJ, I’ve been reading quite a few sync posts and concerned about the privacy topic as well. If this is the case that the ad lib is disabled with purchase, it really needs to be laid out more obviously because it had me looking for alternatives.