<story><title>Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/m2ypbx/has_y_combinator_lost_its_way_as_a_leading/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eitland</author><text>2 observations:&lt;p&gt;- I happily paid for a very similar product about 10 years ago (it was full screen width and  had a brilliant timeline feature but otherwise very similar. It was broken when Snow Lion or something was released. I still look for an equivalent.)&lt;p&gt;- Monthly payments forever for standalone apps is a big no no in my book. I get annoyed even just writing about it. Monthly payments for feature upgrades, perpetual license for last pud release (and some discount to encourage people to not jump on and off) is however totally OK with me. In this case however I think the price is generally too high anyway - for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dhagz</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll tack on: I&amp;#x27;ve happily paid for Fantastical (which is a monthly subscription, granted), and it has the nice menubar interface, a button to join video calls (works with Teams, BlueJeans, Zoom, probably more), integration with ANY calendar  system, and it&amp;#x27;s only $4.99 a month. And I get a full desktop app and iOS app with it, and regular significant updates. I&amp;#x27;m not as put out by the subscription model here because this is an application I&amp;#x27;d be renewing my license for every new release anyways.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t see why I&amp;#x27;d pay more for less here.</text></comment>
<story><title>Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a Mac only widget?</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/m2ypbx/has_y_combinator_lost_its_way_as_a_leading/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eitland</author><text>2 observations:&lt;p&gt;- I happily paid for a very similar product about 10 years ago (it was full screen width and  had a brilliant timeline feature but otherwise very similar. It was broken when Snow Lion or something was released. I still look for an equivalent.)&lt;p&gt;- Monthly payments forever for standalone apps is a big no no in my book. I get annoyed even just writing about it. Monthly payments for feature upgrades, perpetual license for last pud release (and some discount to encourage people to not jump on and off) is however totally OK with me. In this case however I think the price is generally too high anyway - for now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2cb</author><text>&amp;gt; Monthly payments forever for standalone apps is a big no no in my book. I get annoyed even just writing about it.&lt;p&gt;Same. I often see good software then see they run on a subscription model and nope right out of there.&lt;p&gt;If it was a one-off reasonable price I&amp;#x27;d pay.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I am happy to pay a small yearly fee if it&amp;#x27;s real nice software and I wanna support the dev.&lt;p&gt;But monthly subscriptions is stupid to me.</text></comment>