Mastodawn

@imyke It’s a very good video Myke!

I bought one of these a couple of weeks ago and I really like it. Good job! 👍

4.6 stars too high. Do your thing.

A tiny fraction of Twitter users use third-party apps. So put yourself in the shoes of a bean counter…

"We can't serve ads. We can't sell a subscription. The API costs money. If we kill the clients we lose a few users, but some will stick around."

It makes sense on a spreadsheet, but misses the users' value. They produce the content that brings you to Twitter.

Killing clients is exactly what you expect from people who just don't get social networks, and too arrogant to listen to those who do.

@mark Great angle on that sunset! Sleep well

@marcoarment @paul I love this idea, especially with the audience moving here. We know your quality and will be patient

@paul Totally understood. I’m the same way sometimes. But we’re never finished!

We’re selling an ongoing service of slowly making an app over time that’s never complete and never perfect, but is pretty good most of the time.

And customers are OK with that, because “pretty good most of the time” is still better than most other apps.

Hell, if you don’t want to charge people for its unfinished state, give the IAP a two-month-long free trial, “finish” it, then remove the trial.

@paul @marcoarment agreed, I think we all know what we are getting with a 1.0 (it works great for me) and will pay for it. @ivory is mastodon for me

@paul Option 4:
Ship what you have! Add features later.

It’s already both fantastic and desperately needed in the ecosystem.

Stick a $20/year IAP sub on it and ship it.

@mark 😆 well done sir