I'm right there with you, marble. I *refuse* to enter subscription agreements as a general rule.

A little trick that I've found with Patreon, is we can 'pause' the billing each month (but we have too, or it resets to the normal billing mode each month! oops)! So, we can have subscribers, but not enable billing until we actually produce something.

Of course the subscriber has to pick a monthly tier, and *trust* us not to bill unless we release something... But I like that model as it would result in a 'pay-only-when-results' sort of system, and as a safety-net (kind-of-a-hassle), any users can unsubscribe/re-subscribe if they don't wish to 'purchase' the current updates (we could publish the feature-list/release notes in advance).

The other angle might be to simply use gumroad or selz to offer/sell the upgraders at a minimal fee e.g. $5 per release? I suppose we can sell that way here at rendo too (I like the setup here), but I kind of like the user-discretion of being able to grab-and-go (one-off) with a gumroad(.com) and keep the price down. Maybe Gerald and others will have some additional ideas.

(and check your spam-trap email, marble. You should have a note)

best,

VWD3D / Dan

edits: clarification/wording

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