Comment by PaganLecturer
11 hours ago
I would like to say that an in app way of purchasing the app would be great. Something like what FUTO software does. Just add the card details and click pay button, easy two step process.
If you want to receive compensation for the work you put into making the app, then you need to start treating it as work and call it a payment and not donation.
Yep, I’m aware that many FOSS projects use in-app payments, but for MBCompass, I want to keep it free on every platform, regardless of the audience. Without funding or community contributions, it’s hard to maintain a FOSS project with meaningful features and improvements, rather than just vague “bug fixes/version bumps.”
As a FOSS advocate, I started this project as a community contribution to address the gap between user needs and available apps.
I can maintain it long-term without major contributions, but support really helps (especially maintaining in different apps stores). I’m planning a non-intrusive in-app prompt to remind users about donations something subtle, because many users forget once they start using the app, rather than only seeing the donation info in the README.