A Small Plea to Indie Developers

https://blog.realvarez.com/blog/a-small-plea-to-indie-developers/

by realvz • 4 months ago

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uberman• 4 months ago

So, you feel the people who are providing software for free now somehow owe you support as well now that it is so easy to build software? How about making the onus on you to fix the bugs with a PR or two in the open source product you use?

realvz• 4 months ago

I am not talking about free open source software here.

Two things I meant more specifically:

- Not every indie product is open source, so “send a PR” is often not an option. - I am mainly talking about paid products. If a developer charges money and asks users to trust them early, I think some basic follow-through comes with that.

I have a lot of respect for open source maintainers. That is a very different relationship.

theamk• 4 months ago

You've read the post, right? Especially this part:

It is why I paid for your app...

this is about closed-source, paid software - no PRs possible there.

A Small Plea to Indie Developers

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