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Paying for sync services isn't weird at all. Apparently it has upwards of 600 paying customers.


I'm a paying customer. It's not that much money. The seamless/instant sync is why I pay. He could use a few more features, which I did email him about them.

The one lesson I think people should get out of this again is that it's really hard to get consumers to pay for a nice to have, here as if you solve a real business problem, companies will pay a lot more.


Sorry, it's weird to me. More power to the author for finding a revenue stream but it certainly brings out my cynicism. The revenue stream is on a house of cards since there is no "service" being paid for and the fact the author is asking $125k for such a fragile revenue steam is just strange.


How is synchronization not a service? It requires maintaining remote servers, and someone has to pay for them. Not that I think the price is reasonable, but that's a different matter.


iCloud provides this for free


Good joke. You've already paid for it, remember?


Somehow I doubt your 1 kilobyte todo list will require you to alter the amount of iCloud storage you purchase beyond your first free 5gb.




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