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Pedro Vieira
$15 for this? ouch
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So, my question is one to the Product Hunt community - why is this so highly up-voted when nearly every comment thinks the price is ridiculous?
Is this exposing that people blindly upvote screenshots that are pretty and have catchy headlines? Or does the community at large think that $15 is perfectly acceptable for an app that manages roughly 15 settings?
@jesse_wallace Jesse, thanks for your input. The comments do indeed reflect the high price and we've since updated it (thanks to this input). The Product Hunt community are awesome like that.
There nothing particularly catchy about the screenshots though and I highly doubt its exposing anything wrong with the PH community.
Regardless of how many settings it manages, it's intended for people who just want a quick, clean and simple way to handle some of the most annoying ones.
People are charging too much for simple tools, whatever happened to giving things away for free?
Purchased. I've always hated the hidden file issue (especially with .htaccess). Appreciate the easy fix. The $5.99 will pay for itself.
This is the list of why Arthur is awesome (according to their site):
Installs to your Mac System Preferences
Functionality you didn't know your Mac had
Quick and easy to revert settings
Show all hidden and system files on this Mac
Disable smart quotes and dashes globally
Show all file extensions in Finder
Show the full path bar in the Finder window
Do not create .DS_Store files on network drives
Automatically hide the dock on your Mac
Enable subpixel font rendering on non-Apple LCDs
Make the ~/Library directory visible
Hide warnings when you change file extensions
Show the full POSIX path as the Finder window title
Disable auto-correct globally on this Mac
Disable the warning when emptying your trash
Set a blazing fast keyboard repeat rate
Save documents to disk instead of iCloud by default
This is a joke right? Basically a toggle-UI wrapper around `defaults write…` which you could just copy and paste from mathiasbynens dotfiles on Github.
@thibmaekelbergh It's for people who don't want to ticker with defaults write or don't know how.
@seannieuwoudt I get that and at $5 dollars it indeed seems more justified than at $15 Stuff like this pops up at Github or Electron featured every once in a while, 15 USD was simply too much, glad you changed it.
@jonas_petermann You are right, we were still experimenting with pricing when it got posted here in PH. It's been updated though
@juliens_me Unfortunately, I'm guilty of that $15 Cappuccino in Berlin :( The price of the app has been updated.