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I was actually considering that, the only product I know that does a lifetime plan is Roam though. Do you know of any others?

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Intellij has (had?) a lifetime license. My POV is that having to pay monthly forever is a psychological burden. Your pricing seems reasonable to me but psychologicaly, some users could pay for a lifetime license and not for monthly one.

Also you could propose a discount for the first year (a common practice)

> Also you could propose a discount for the first year

Sounds like a good idea, I haven't really seen this myself though, could you point me to some examples?

Specifically, for a note-taking app, a subscription model is discouraging. I don't want access to the history of my thoughts tied to a recurring payment. On the other hand, if I stopped paying for IntelliJ, I can open my code with any variety of free or paid IDEs (ignoring the fact that I can use a 12-month old version of IntelliJ indefinitely).

That makes sense. If you use a tool you would expect that you will keep what you produce with the tool. Keep paying for using the tool, but keep the work-products for yourself.

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