“Most of what’s currently out there seems to involve upsells and/or data collection.”
artmanja111, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
Kegel apps slip an upsell in between reps. This one counts your holds in a browser tab and asks for nothing, your data included.
Acrobat wants $14.99 a month to fix one typo. FreePDF Editor fixes it in your browser and never asks for a card.
“Most online PDF editors demand a subscription after one or two edits.”
remove.bg capped your export resolution and then moved into Canva. RMBG cuts out backgrounds in your browser at full size, no credits.
“The only caveats for me were the export resolution limits and a privacy factor, that is, my images got uploaded to their servers.”
MyFitnessPal Premium is $79.99 a year per person, and that's only the food part. SparkyFitness tracks the whole family on your own server for zero.
“One good nutrition app runs $40–$100 a year; covering everything SparkyFitness covers means three or four subscriptions, per person, and still no single report across them.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.
