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Just like arc web browser i think this is the worst business model

schnable 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would love to pay for Arc, it makes me happy and productive. Unfortunately, it seems like the number of people willing to do is too small to support VC valuations and they are abandoning the product :(

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CryptoBanker 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have a source for that?

	▲	jacobwg 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://youtu.be/E9yZ0JusME4 and the CEO on Twitter are the main sources for Arc being in maintenance mode as they work on their new product.

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deprecative 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As soon as I got to that screen I uninstalled. I don't want an account for every single thing I use.

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lykahb 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Terminals don't take much effort to maintain compared to a browser. But most browsers rely on the ad revenue. The business models of the old Opera or Arc feel fresh.

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talldayo 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah. "Pay us a recurring fee so we don't make your experience worse" is a business model that flat-out doesn't work with power users, I think. Most of us are old enough to have seen our favorite paid software turn into bloated cloud-based subscription software - we don't want different flavors of the same moldy ice cream.

Warp is just something that will, quite honestly, never appeal to me. I don't think the UI is bad, I don't think their featureset is bad, but I also have no desire to use a proprietary terminal app. Tilix is open source and has worked fine for the past 10 years - I'm not giving it up for a chic frosted-glass background and some syntactic eye-candy for bash.

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ksp-atlas 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even then, there are a bunch of fancy terminals with those kinda features, like iterm and wezterm

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extr 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I personally will pay a subscription for literally every piece of software I use if it means the software makes me more productive. On an hourly basis my time is worth more than $100/hr. That means if a subscription tool is $10/month it only needs to save me 6 minutes of time, per month, to make it worth it.

	▲	talldayo 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hah! I would never, but I guess that's why good options exist for the both of us. If someone pitched me a six-minute timesaver that costs as much as a cup of coffee, I'd gently remind them that I bought an espresso machine years ago. My fear of paid software mostly stems from not actually owning what I pay for. I know people who are (horrifyingly) unable to use Git without a paid GUI that handles everything for them. If one day they update their computer and it's unsupported, or if the developer quits updating it, they've gotta learn a new UI. I'd rather just learn how to use the original tool quickly, and save myself a few hundred hours with 2 or 3 macros. To each their own. I've paid for too much software that has gone to shit in the past, and I'm perfectly productive with free tools I can actually own.