The pricing seems way too low. $30 dollars a month for studios is pocket change to a 30+ person team

The plans on these pages are different, btw. The first one indicates a 'private' option, but that all looks cleaned up in the parent link.

Ah, paid plans for the mobile version, too. I wonder why that isn't linked on the home page.

Hi this is Wraecca from the POP team, we're sorry that we're not ready for the premium feature, but it will be released soon. Thank you!

Uhm... does this mean the app cannot work offline?

Potentially, yes. You want products you like to have a business model so that they are kept alive.

what business model does linux kernel have, and how much does it cost?

EDIT: OK, just to make it clear. I'm not against people asking money for they creations, I'm all 100% up for it. What really pisses me off is 'why is it free?!', and 'i would happily pay $XXX for it!'. Please, keep that to yourself - if someone decided not to take money for their work, it's entirely up to them, and that deserves some respect.

Why are you afraid of open discussion about pricing?

(Millions of dollars have been invested in Linux development by commercial interests, even if most distros are free-as-in-beer.)

Making an app and releasing for free it can be fun. When the customer support and feature requests start pouring in it becomes a lot less fun. Chances are more likely that a project will be abandoned for one reason or another (developer gets bored, gets busy with their 'real' job, etc.)

When people see an idea that's good, especially for potential business use (and especially on HN which as a community of entrepreneurs) they are letting the developer know that they have created something that is worth having around and would pay to see it maintained.

Linux is probably a bad comparison, because it has so much corporate support and is an entire ecosystem of business models for probably hundreds if not thousands of companies.

I think it was just out of curiosity; I had the exact same question.

Also, "Why is it free?" is another way of asking "What's the catch?". It's important to understand this before you put in a bunch of work...

I'd much rather buy the app for the iPhone than pay a monthly subscription.

Because those engineer is doing their job and we need to let them have more power to do such a wonderful stuff.