Sticking With It ⇥ manuelmoreale.com
And the thing I love the most about sticking with tools for the long run is that you get to know the people behind them, and you learn to appreciate those individuals and what they do. That is especially true in my case because most of the tools I use are built by either small teams or single developers.
Entirely agreed.
There is quite a difference between my choosing to be a longstanding customer, and those businesses which take advantage of their position or dominance to create recurring revenue, particularly through subscriptions. I hate to sound like this, but there once was a time developers actively tried to build those kinds of client relationships through good service, quality products, and agreeable pricing. It seems that is happening less frequently. So much software now feels entirely disposable or, frustratingly, lacking in sufficient competition to become essentially a tax on the work we do.
Indie software is where the best stuff keeps happening. It is heartbreaking for it to feel so fragile.