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I've worked on the artwork and improved the overall fidelity, thanks so much for the feedback swah :)

Thank you, yeah I'm busy working hard on the artwork but keep it low pixel.

I tried going up to 32 bit but it lost some appeal :)

Spot on

It takes a few tries to get the right cadence.

You need to click once and the swing will start and again when it goes over the green sweet spot!

It sure has been a crazy passed few weeks all around the world. With social distancing, lock downs, closed schools and everything else going on, staying productive has been more difficult than ever.

With that said, to help productivity, I’ve decided to make Thought Train pay-what-you-want until the end of April.

My own primary use for Thought Train in the last month has been to take notes while on Zoom, Skype or Hangout calls, so I thought that since almost everyone is going to be working from home, I want you to have the same option to streamline your workflow.

Thought Train is a small app with a small audience of loyal users, so it’s really the best I can do in this climate to help in a small way.

I’ve read a few posts like this one but none which start from the absolute bottom like this, thanks Kyle!

Pricing is hard.

I thought I'd bring this to Hacker News because I know that many users on this platform build apps or market apps for a living.

My journey in the world of apps came after a career selling WordPress themes. I was tentative to launch my app, but when I finally did, the response blew my mind, the reason? The pricing. It was a pay what you want app!

So many users enjoyed the app, so I thought I'd release a new version, and this time I'd add cloud syncing, better features, a new interface, and... a recurring pricing model.

I was happy with this decision, so in May I launched the app to my 15,000 strong email database and to Product Hunt. It went relatively well, but as the months went on the over-arching feedback was... users are growing tired of the subscription model.

Dang!

I knew I had to make a switch, but changing your pricing is difficult, I was already working on some cool new features. So I thought I'd just take the dive, and update my pricing at the same time.

I settled on a once-off $19.

Well, a few days into it and I'm pretty happy with the result. I sucked it up and mailed my users, many of them happy with the change, and some have even converted.

The moral of the story is: it's never too soon to change pricing and go in a new direction.

I my post another update here on the long-tail affect, but for now, pretty keen to chat about pricing in general.

Very nice implementation Emkaka. I built a sticky notes replacement app too called Thought Train, but I really like your implementation :)