It's crazy how expensive these small utilities are.
And worse, because they're paid you don't even get the source code to fix issues yourself :/
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The goal of this app is to provide a comfortable native GUI for SQLite, without it turning into a massive IDE-style app.
The coolest features are
- That it can handle full altering of tables, which is quite finicky to do manually with SQLite.
- It has a more detailed display of column constraints than most editors. Each constraint is shown as an icon if active, with full details available on clicking the icon.
This update also adds support for attaching databases, which is a bit fiddly with macOS sandboxing.
I'd love to hear any feedback or answer any questions.
And worse, because they're paid you don't even get the source code to fix issues yourself :/
But... expensive? Really? A one-off cost (not a subscription, mind) for a tool that might make an expensive developer/data person even marginally more productive? You have to be kidding. It blows my mind how much developers, who of all users should be the ones who appreciate how much work goes into something like this, complain so often about the cost of basic tools.
There’s a ton of work that’s OSS. There’s also a ton of work that’s not.
This is a tool that I’d happily pay double the amount that they’re asking if it was OSS. I also regularly fund OSS maintainers.
Heck I’d even be fine with a closed source by default, but pay to get source code access too.
As to pricing, I need to be able to financially justify the time spent working on the app, and the price is one that I hope will let me do that.
I know you could make the argument “the right license wouldn’t allow that”, but that would only be enforced if you follow up through the courts, perhaps internationally. I just can’t be doing with the hassle unfortunately.