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I've registered for the app already. Every day I check Google Play for available app updates. I'll see a notification that there are several apps with updates available... but it's never Boost... such disappointment every time. Haha!

In all honesty, I can't wait for the app to come out. Take your time, do it right. And don't do what Sync did... I'll just leave it at that.

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[โ€“] mojo@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think Sync definitely did it right, I'm using it right now. Their pricing model is whack though, and I'm eagerly waiting to come back home to Boost.

[โ€“] geizeskrank@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sync's pricing ist outrageous.

[โ€“] mojo@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes it is, that's like the number one feedback lol

[โ€“] hogart@feddit.nu 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not only the number one, but the only one. App works flawless. Is a beauty and... Yeah.. monetization is fucked

[โ€“] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I knew Boost was coming out, I'd probably cave and get the $20 buy once. But right now I just bought the $2/mo since it'll probably be ready before then I'm hoping.

[โ€“] hogart@feddit.nu 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good choice. I'm using free atm. Ads aren't even correctly implemented for me. Just gray boxes.

And here I just assumed that was Blokoda doing it's job for me.

[โ€“] sour@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How should sync do it in your opinion?

[โ€“] hogart@feddit.nu 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

117 dollars for lifetime Ultra is wrong. Just saying. That's 15 Big Macs to remove ads and letting me cloud storage my settings.

How can that be a good purchase in anyone's book?

Edit: Sorry didn't anwer your question. I would set lifetime of Ultra at around 35-40 usd. And ad removal at 15 usd. I would also add a donate button for the people that wants to donate, since a lot of the Lifetime Ultra purchasers claim they bought to support the dev and nothing else. Let them do that how much they want.

Other free apps are closing in. And the free version of Sync is still the best app. I love Sync. But I won't paying harmful prices.

[โ€“] UlrikHD@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago

I remember there being just a small one time fee to get rid of ads on boost. Hopefully it will be the same this time around. The solution sync came up with just looks ridiculous in context of lemmy and all the apps for it.

The main feature I'm hoping for is a way to block instances and keywords, but those should ideally come from the lemmy backend itself.

[โ€“] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

20usd one payment is very fair. I'd pay more for Boost, if it works well and promises proper support I think Boost is worth 60usd which is what a new video game costs.

People are being a bit scroogey on lemmy tbh.

[โ€“] Ilgaz@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

They can charge anything of course, it is a free market. It would be nice of them to spare $3 for each purchase as a donation to users current server. A checkbox perhaps?