Comment by avadhesh18

Comment by avadhesh18 9 days ago

Thanks! A couple of other people in this thread have mentioned that bug too and I'll get it fixed ASAP.

There's no login required since the app uses Google Play Billing on Android and App Store billing on iOS. That also means purchases are tied to the Google account used to buy the app, so unfortunately they can't be shared across different accounts.

I hate the annoyance of apps forcing you to create an account before you even try them and that's exactly why I kept it simple and login-free. But yeah, the trade-off is stuff like what you pointed out. To balance that, I made it a one-time low-cost purchase instead of a subscription. Hope that makes it fair.

mdaniel 8 days ago

> That also means purchases are tied to the Google account used to buy the app, so unfortunately they can't be shared across different accounts.

I don't have hand-to-hand experience with Google Play, but quite a few of those billing platforms offer "discount codes." So to help the GP commenter, I would imagine they could email you from their purchasing Google account and ask for 100% off codes for their other Google account addresses

I don't know how to help the sibling comment, short of you just straight-up making them a custom .apk without Play Billing. FWIW, it's actually absolutely painless to host your own f-droid repository <https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver#what-is-f-droid-serve...>. It's marked AGPL but despite its name one doesn't need to run that package to host a repo, just $($HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/fdroid update --verbose --create-metadata -W error) and then $(rsync -Pav --delete ./repo/ your-awesome-host:/repo/)

It's so painless you could even do that per user, as in lucb1e-fdroid.example.com or lucb1e-a6d7c104-e9b1-4ddc-ad5a-470e51bb5069.example.com

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lucb1e 9 days ago

> There's no login required since the app uses Google Play Billing

...so it requires logging in with a Google account. That means I won't be able to buy the app on my phone

A one-time purchase for an offline privacy-friendly app is 100% fair and the price point and free tier seem great to me (someone upthread said it's like 4.7€ if you want more than 7 puzzles per day iirc), but please just add an option to send you money directly via e.g. IBAN. It's one of the few privacy-friendly options and you also get to keep all of the money

Most other options cut people out: paypal doesn't work half the time ("sorry, something went wrong" when the algorithm hates you today), stripe has issues when your bank and residence country don't match, credit card requires a good credit score, etc. It's all data- and algorithm-based, whereas banks are legally obliged to give you a functional account because it underpins so much of society nowadays. I'd be happy to pay for the app even without using it as a way to add my 'two cents' and hopefully make this more worth your time

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avadhesh18 8 days ago

I will definitely look into supporting alternative payment methods, someone else also has a de-googled phone and asked for the same in this thread too. I wonder if any of the alternative payment methods has a sdk that I can integrate directly or I will have to go the old school way of using software keys.

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charcircuit 8 days ago

A Google account is free and only takes a few seconds to make.

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- mdaniel 8 days ago
  
  > one of the few privacy-friendly options
  almost certainly implies it's not a technical hurdle that they're facing. Plus, purchasing would require giving Google payment details, which would necessarily include billing address, and now it's tied to your phone. I could very easily imagine that giving a lot of folks a lot of heartburn
  
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- lucb1e 8 days ago
  
  Huh? Try it, since like ten years it requires validating the account with a phone number, which in many countries requires going through government verification. That alone takes a while to set up if you want a new account that isn't linked to other things already. It's not a quick as generating a new password in your password manager and coming up with a non-taken username anymore
  You also can't log into this app specifically, it will tie all apps on your device to this one account. Nobody should be doing this, it's like logging into the Chrome browser and tying all pages that have any sort of google service on it (embedded map, youtube, analytics, ads) to the phone number and thus identity you signed up with
  
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