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Drew McCormack
Personal blog · drewmccormack.medium.comprogrammingbusiness
Drew McCormack's personal blog at drewmccormack.medium.com covers programming and business. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “The "Cash Cow" model for selling apps”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Medium blog for its writing on the 'Cash Cow' software pricing model, a one-time purchase that includes a year of updates, as used by the Agenda note-taking app. The comments mostly cite it as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The "Cash Cow" model for selling apps3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-01-20
What Hacker News says?
My favorite pricing model is by the note-taking app Agenda[0]. It's called a Cash Cow[1] model—you make a one-time purchase, which allows you updates for the next year. At the end of the year, you can either purchase another year of updates, or enjoy the full-featured app you currently have. The thing keeping me from subscriptions is the fact that if you decide you no longer want to pay, you no longer get access. Th…
Comment linking /a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agenda-138a11995595
on “Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)”Submitted The "Cash Cow" model for selling apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you live in the Apple ecosystem, Agenda(1) could be just the right tool for you. I also very much like their pricing schema(2), more apps should do it like this! 1. https://www.agenda.com/ 2. https://drewmccormack.medium.com/a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agenda...
Comment linking /a-cash-cow-is-on-the-agenda-138a11995595
on “Dendron: A personal knowledge management solution built on VS Code”Submitted What SwiftData will be ( and what it could have been) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPart 2 of the article after 3 years: https://drewmccormack.medium.com/cash-cow-revisited-4c2185e2... Actual product: https://agenda.com
Comment linking /cash-cow-revisited-4c2185e2b3d8
on “The "Cash Cow" model for selling apps”