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The guy from Inkdrop [0] makes a living with his note-taking app. He also has a YouTube channel [1] which I found very relaxing.

[0] https://www.inkdrop.app

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/devaslife

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Uses a subscription pricing model though. I wonder why he choose that model. Personally I love the Sublime model, buy a license, use it anywhere.

I think it syncs the data between instances of the app (on the cloud - 10GB or something like that..).

By default, it's synced on Inkdrop's servers, but you can self-host your own DB if you want. It's well described in the docs: https://docs.inkdrop.app/manual/synchronizing-in-the-cloud

... in which case paying per month makes no sense.

Because a subscription pricing model brings in more money and a more predictable revenue stream. Most people selling apps on a pay-once basis can't afford to support it and develop new features indefinitely, so they move on to the next project and it goes into maintenance mode, only getting updates when a new OS update breaks it.

Also needs to pay for the cloud servers running it lol.

> goes into maintenance mode, only getting updates when a new OS update breaks it.

I don't see anything wrong with this. Users buy software because it solves their current problem now, rather than a possible feature in the future. The revenue stream is definitely more reliable though. Just that as a user I wouldn't mind if the software I bought today stays that way forever, and as a developer I wouldn't mind developing software to completion then leaving it as that.

Ok I can't thank you enough for exposing me to this channel. The aesthetics and vim and the complete coding is so relaxing. Do you have any other channel recommendations like this?

I follow him on YT. His videos have an amazing aesthetics, and the tech content displayed is simple mind blogging to me as a non-tech person.

Seems to be doing quite well too, considering all the hardware on his channel.

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