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Ten years ago today I released version 0.1 of #Conversations_im on the Google Play Store as a paid app.

I believe that I have contributed significantly to normalizing the pay-for-the-binary business model for open source apps.

Ten years ago Conversations was one of the first apps to do this and definitely raised some eyebrows. Nowadays it feels like a pretty common thing.

A screenshot of the Conversations app how it looked in 2014. The conversation overview is visible. Holo Design. Sliding pane layout (to swipe between the current chat and the overview)
A screenshot of the Conversations app showing an overview of open chats. It uses Material 3 design language.
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Tilman Beitter
Tilman Beitter
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Thank you so much for all the work and energy you have put into the most important app for my everyday life. ♥️
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Wolf480pl
Wolf480pl
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thanks for the great app and for pushing XMPP forward!
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Dennis Guse
Dennis Guse
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I happily copied the "pay-for-binary" method for OpenTracks ;)
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JayT
JayT
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Good on you for finding a working business model.

But man, I find the older UI so much easier to track. The new Material 3 is all whitespace and no separation of elements.

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