So many people instantly shelling out 20$ (or 100$ "lifetime subscriptions") the moment an app releases in beta, then immediately bragging about it in comments. I'm using Sync right now and it's cool, but calm tf down people. There's a lot of sunk-cost and weird app tribalism going on.

Also this dev must have made some serious bank in 24 hours, holy smokes

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As is often the case, I think a lot is driven by fans digging in and doubling down in response to the vocal haters.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

He's a trusted Reddit app developer and likely had an existing code base to build the Lemmy app from. I expect good things from him, as many do.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Also this dev must have made some serious bank in 24 hours, holy smokes

That's how we're tempted to think about it, but they made zero dollars an hour for all the time spent working on it until the release.