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Comment by matwood | Hacker News Reader

People pay for convenience every single day. Just look at Starbucks.

True. On the other hand, $79 (or even the discounted price of $29) is pretty steep for what is only one minor optional tool in a dev's toolset. Imagine if you paid a similar amount for every single tool you use, no matter how trivial.

If you have a microtransaction for everything in your computer, they start to add up pretty fast. At some point you have to pick and choose, and nice UI themes start to seem less essential...

(Also, do note outside the first world $29 is not such a small amount of money. And $79 is unthinkable for a UI theme).

not developers, look at GitHub - it's all for free

I disagree with the argument that developers don't pay for things. Yes, there's a huge open source culture where people can have access to free code on GitHub. However, there's a huge market of paid products that developers will purchase. There are many examples out there like Tailwind, Chakra UI, Envato, etc.

I pay for GitHub

Yes - developers. Look how many of them pay for Digital Ocean/AWS to host their projects instead of rolling their own servers.

Yeah, but that also serves the purpose of making us encourage our workplaces to use GitHub, and they pay for it.

> not developers, look at GitHub - it's all for free

I do use the free stuff (GitHub, VS Code, etc).

And I also pay for NCrunch, Wallaby, RubyMine, Rider, GoLand, PyCharm, FastMail, PCloud, and more.

Most of the stuff I pay for has free equivalents (and yes, I know JetBrains have an all-products subscription rather than separate Ruby, .Net, Go, and Python, but I have reasons).

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