• 1ird@notyour.rodeo
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    2 年前

    80% of the app is the same. It’s not like he spent years creating a new app from scratch. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve compensation but I feel like he’s being a bit gougey in this situation.

    • Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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      2 年前

      I mean that’s literally how business works - amount needed to be profitable / number of customers = base price.

      Reddit had millions of users, lower price per person.

      Not to mention the literally free version!

    • quadropiss@lemmy.world
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      2 年前

      I’m pretty sure he had to rewrite all of the code related to network and the API, and that’s not little work. Thats weeks worth of work including testing