I tried Day One and absolutely loved it. Then I hit the paywall, couldn’t sync between devices and immediately hated it. So then I built my own. This is Sunrise and it’s in the works. It’s a journaling app without a subscription. (Ignore my annoying entries 😅)

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Nice! OG Day One user here. I'm curious, how are you going to sustain the service or make money without subscriptions?

My same question, is paying for software that’s good really a dealbreaker?

I pay for Apollo for Reddit, Ivory for Mastodon, I am a Mastodon Patron and even paid for Sketch for a while. I pay for Photoshop and Lightroom. I even pay for Arcade by Output! If it’s good, I pay. I just can’t justify the money for Day One

Also, there is also no need to attack my interest in making my own product that doesn’t have a subscription attached to it. If the pot wants to call the kettle black, here are some others for it

I’m not attacking your interesting in making a product. I’m attacking your value proposition being “I remade the thing I like but for free” and your justification for it. The people on the other end are just like you and me

I don’t believe you think my journal app can compete with a Goliath like Automattic (who also own Tumblr, Wordpress and Gravatar, btw). I made a product that I wanted, how I wanted; I’m not going to steal their millions of dollars of revenue. Hell, I might even open source this.