Afternoon everyone,

I wanted to go over a few points related to pricing, stats and the roadmap

Pricing

  1. Sync for Lemmy is completely free with ads (the same as Sync for Reddit)

  2. You can remove ads in the account picker or drawer for a one time fee of ~$20

  3. Sync Ultra also removes ads but it’s not required

  4. I’ll be working on regional prices over the coming weeks

There are now 24k installed users up from 100 the previous day!

I’m going to be spending the next few days going through all of the comments / messages and fixing any crashes.

As always thanks for the support and hope you’re liking Sync!

Lj

Edit: testing edit

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3410·
    1 year ago

    It’s the best app but the pricing is insane. I mean, maybe you have experience from your other apps and you know this is the optimal price, but otherwise, consider changing it. People are surprised by the high price right now.

    If it was me, I would price it like this:

    • Remove ads - $10 lifetime.

    • Ultra - $3 per month, $20 per year, $50 lifetime.

    Those sums are realistic and people are likely to find them acceptable. You would get more users instead of less users paying more.

    But this is just me and I speak only as someone who never had an app in a appstore. Maybe you know better. But that’s what I would do.

    • Hyperion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      People are comparing very short timescales for ad removal. Lots of 1 week/2 week comparisons.

      I hope to have this app for 4 years, like I had for Reddit. That’s $5 per year or 10 cents per week.

      Actually, I’ve paid for 1 month of Ultra to see if Lemmy is worth staying on and if LJ updates Sync, but I don’t mind the idea of $20 for a long-time payoff

    • protput@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      I would say that is still high for ultra. Imo:

      Remove ads - $10 lifetime.

      Ultra monthly - $1 per month, $10 per year, $30 lifetime.

      I would definitely consider lifetime if that was the case. And you would have a ton more users signing up. The number of users should more then make up for the lower prices.

      Edit: Question for people downvoting me, do you think I’m being cheap with these prices? $1/month doesn’t sound much, but that is the point. It is still $12/year and the amount of users would more then make up for it.

      • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think the problem with comparing pricing on Lemmy with comparing pricing on Reddit is the scale of numbers. Reddit love it or hate it, had a much greater potential of paid users. When you have to make similar (or at least sustainable) income from a smaller pool of users, prices are going to reflect that (at least short term).

        Also when you math it out pricing isn’t all that crazy:

        $20 ad free lifetime = ~$1.70 USD/mo for 1yr = ~$0.06 USD/per day for a year

        $100 Ultra = ~$8.34 USD/mo for 1yr - ~$4.17 USD/mo for 2yrs = ~$0.27 USD/per day for a year = ~$0.14/per day for 2yrs