Fair gain, not extraction
A useful app should be able to support its maker without treating the user as fuel for endless recurring revenue.
Values · The experiment
Useful apps should not become a monthly tax.
The goal is not to build an empire. The goal is to make useful tools, charge what they are honestly worth, and stop before the product turns against the person using it.
Not a killing.A living.
Small software can be commercially real without becoming hostile. Myworkingmemory exists to test that proposition in public, one focused product at a time.
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What these values require.
One job, honestly done
The best tool is often the one that does the thing you came for, makes the next step obvious, and then gets out of the way.
No traps for attention
Notifications, streaks, upsells, and defaults should earn their place. If they make a metric better and a day worse, they are suspect.
Plain signals
Current links, clear platform labels, and no pretend certainty about what a product can or cannot do.
Plain signals
Current links, no pretend certainty.
People should land in the right store and understand what is available now.
- Apple links go to live Apple App Store pages today.
- Google Play will be shown plainly as Android apps become available.
- Pricing claims stay specific to current store listings.
- A feature should make the user's day clearer, not just the dashboard better.
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