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$50? Ouch. I support developers making a living, but this is a market with a lot of competition, some of it free, some of it great, and some of it free and great.

If it were $19, the professional looking UI would have had me pull the trigger, but $50 is way on the other side of of my price sensitivity.

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I don't use Paw (I'm a Linux-on-the-desktop user) and I have no idea who they are but a one-time $50 cost doesn't bother me if it's something that is a key tool for my job and is demonstrably better than its competitors in the market.

In other words, if it's good enough for me to spend $20 on a license, it's good enough for me to spend $50.

True, but does this do things better then postman? What's my migration cost? For that matter, why not just use curl?

There is of course, value, but there $50 price point I reserve for things absolutely critical, with little good competition - for Example Tower, or OmniFocus.

I switched to Paw after spending many hours over several days wondering why the API I was calling was working sporadically through the client I was using at the time, Postman. $50 is nothing compared to the pay my company spent for me to realize Postman was using Chrome's settings (and more importantly, cookies and caching), and thus causing me inconsistent results. I agree $50 is steep, but Paw is well worth it, and I've been thrilled to use it ever since.

For me, considering how this is a tool that I use many times each week and how tiny of a cost it is vs the average salary in this industry, $50 really isn’t extravagant, particularly if it means I can avoid piling on yet another subscription.

I value apps that try to be a good citizen on the macOS desktop, though, which puts Paw above Postman in my view. It’s likely that many don’t care about this aspect at all so I can see where overall value stacks up differently for others.

(Offtopic, but HNers thinking of creating a startup that sells tools to developers should heed these comments.)

Good, reliable tool, with great native UI is very well worth one time $50 purchase.

This is actually a pretty common business model among a tier of "aspirational" mac applications without a subscription model.

See panic.com and omnigroup.com for other examples.

Agreed, but this tool is nowhere near the completeness of OmniGraffle, OmniOutline or OmniFocus, all of which I have purchased for full price, and gladly so.

The value doesn't appear to be there for me.

Seriously? You can use the app for less than hour and it will pay for itself considering the hourly rate of an average programmer. A useful professional tool that will make development flow easier and save you time and fifty bucks is expensive? $19 is peanuts. I use Paw quite often and every time I use it I discover some new little detail that the developers put in. It's not a basic app, it's well-designed and it's useful. $19 - seriously that's less than what many people spend on coffee in a week. $50 is not at all expensive for a tool that used in a professional setting on a regular basis. Far from it.

I'm on the same page. I'm not totally sure it's worth the money they're asking.

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