Harmony Player
Music player for 2018
Right after closing Harmony sources, I decided to introduce a $15/year subscription model but few users were willing to pay anualy for a music player.
I changed this to a $39 lifetime license, and a $15 license for the current version. Even if it's more expensive upfront, users prefer to pay one time for the product than annually for this type of software.
In case I didn't want to continue working on Harmony in a few years, it was also problematic to have subscriptions running.
Almost every licenses sold are now lifetime licenses.
I decided to switch Harmony from an open-source model to a license based one.
This was the best decision I made with Harmony, as previously the donations were close to non-existent.
The app remains free to use, with a popup asking the user to buy a license for continued use (like Sublime Text).
I wrote a blog post with more details here: https://vincelwt.github.io/licensing-desktop-app/
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