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Exited Mac Development

https://ds9soft.com/blog/2025/09/exited-mac-development/
1•ds9soft•1h ago

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ds9soft•1h ago
Reasons why I no longer develop my apps
leakycap•1h ago
> A few months ago I stopped selling my Mac applications (PopDo and FreelanceStation)

I looked at these. On PopDo, you mistake two completely different macOS versions (your site says "Works on macOS 14 Sequoia" and of course, Sequoia is 15 not 14). This alone would have me closing the tab on a developer's site.

So I thought, well let me check the FreelanceStation page and the latest release says "Works on Ventura" (which is from 2022).

> I never made any real money out of my apps that would make me consider staying.

I think the two immediate details I noticed on your product pages might be a good indicator of why these things didn't make money. The types of users who pay for Mac apps have an eye for detail and usually run recent macOS releases.

I wouldn't have considered downloading software from a small developer with major errors on the system requirements, or a version from 3 years ago being listed as "Works with..."

Lisp is awesome, but not everything is SwiftUI's fault here. Marketing is an incredible undertaking and starts with attention to detail, especially in the Mac market.

Edward Teller Last Interview (2002)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/interviews/a2020/esq0102-jan-teller/
1•JumpinJack_Cash•1m ago•0 comments

Turn Your Phone into a Robot

https://www.instructables.com/Turn-Your-Phone-into-a-Robot/
1•wslh•3m ago•0 comments

Waterloo built an LRT more cheaply than other North American cities [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uttoyAX4ntc
1•zahlman•3m ago•1 comments

$37B 'Stargate of China' project takes shape

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-is-converting-farmland-i...
2•jonbaer•4m ago•0 comments

The CSS Handbook, 2025 edition

https://flaviocopes.com/the-css-handbook-2025-edition/
1•indigodaddy•16m ago•0 comments

Wearable Electrochemical Platform for Continuous Sweat Lactate Detection

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202502655
1•PaulHoule•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?

3•mijoharas•19m ago•2 comments

Everyone builds apps for where the night starts. We built one for where it ends

https://myaftr.com/
1•Jessenet•20m ago•1 comments

American students are getting dumber

https://www.slowboring.com/p/american-students-are-getting-dumber
5•JumpCrisscross•21m ago•1 comments

The pattern language of software architecture

https://metapatterns.io
1•t-3•21m ago•0 comments

Apple steps up war of words with European regulators

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly930y90lro
2•tchalla•23m ago•0 comments

As Good as a Coin Toss: Human Detection of AI-Generated Content

https://cacm.acm.org/research/as-good-as-a-coin-toss-human-detection-of-ai-generated-content/
2•pseudolus•27m ago•2 comments

Thundering Herd Problem: Preventing the Stampede

https://distributed-computing-musings.com/2025/08/thundering-herd-problem-preventing-the-stampede/
1•pbardea•27m ago•0 comments

Grepctl: Semantic Search for Your Data Lake

https://github.com/gregorymulla/grepctl
2•GregoryMulla•28m ago•1 comments

Ron DiMenna, Founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop, Has Died

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2•NaOH•30m ago•1 comments

US Intel officials "concerned" China will soon master reusable launch

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1•pseudolus•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Minimalist automatic Prettier formatting plugin for Vite

https://github.com/kekyo/prettier-max
1•kekyo•30m ago•0 comments

How Climate Change Is Fueling Your Sugar Addiction

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1•sizzle•31m ago•1 comments

Predicting the Future: The Supergroup of AI, Humans, Hedgehogs and Foxes

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1•T-A•33m ago•0 comments

Bayes vs. Frequentists – An Empirical Test in Code

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2•whack•34m ago•1 comments

Building ventilation invented by ancient Persians/Romans making modern comeback

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2•bookofjoe•34m ago•0 comments

Food Defect Levels Handbook

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1•georgecmu•37m ago•0 comments

Your Kitchen Is Full of Microplastics. Here’s How to Eat Less of Them

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Don't Purchase Your iPhone with AppleCare+

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2•sedatk•46m ago•2 comments

One like, one writing opinion (thread)

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1•colinprince•48m ago•0 comments

Trump links autism to Tylenol and vaccines, claims not backed by science

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10•geox•48m ago•7 comments

Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation, Replacement with Holistic Replication

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14055
1•walterbell•48m ago•0 comments

Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations

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2•akyuu•49m ago•1 comments

Cyberattack Forces Brussels Airport to Cancel More Flights

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3•corvad•54m ago•0 comments

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terroris...
61•Kye•55m ago•55 comments