The future of my apps; Mudpie, Tap Type, and the upcoming Dialect and Sandfly are in question.

The simple truth is I can't keep working on these without some more income. As much as I enjoy providing value to the community, development time takes up time I could be using making money.

Unfortunately, encouraging people with optional sponsorships isn't working, and is likely not a viable stratagy for me going forward.

So something has to be done. Either I need to place ads throughout my apps in the hopes that people click them, or I need to start charging subscriptions in order to fund ongoing development.

I wish this were not the case, but costs are going up and my income is not.

If anyone feels like supporting my work, you can do so in a few ways. Any amount really does help.

Paypal: paypal.me/aaronhewitt

Github: github.com/sponsors/aaron-gh

Liberapay: liberapay.com/fireborn/

Any amount you can donate helps considerably.

Thank you for taking the time to read and support my work in whatever way you do, whether that be using it, telling your friends, sharing this post or financially.

#appDev #accessibility #android #blindTech #indiDev

I recently reorganised my free-to-use music tracks folders so you can see which have been uploaded to youtube and therefore might get hit by content ID and which have not.
Anyone is free to download and use anything from this folder they like. Proper attribution is the only expectation I have for your use of these files.

dropbox.com/scl/fo/jgodxzpzf7s…

#Conversations_im remains free of charge today and tomorrow (Tuesday) on Google Play.

If you want to migrate away from one of its forks, now would be a good opportunity. Likewise, if you have friends or family members who don’t know about #FDroid, now is a great time to recommend Conversations to them.

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

A young guy from North Dakota moves to Florida and goes to a big “everything under one roof” department store looking for a job.
The Manager says, “Do you have any sales experience?” The kid says “Yeah. I was a vacuum salesman back in North Dakota.”

Well, the boss was unsure, but he liked the kid and figured he’d give him a shot, so he gave him the job.

“You start tomorrow. I’ll come down after we close and see how you did.”

His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down to the sales floor.

“How many customers bought something from you today?” The kid frowns and looks at the floor and mutters, “One”. The boss says “Just one?!!? Our sales people average sales to 20 to 30 customers a day.

That will have to change, and soon, if you’d like to continue your employment here. We have very strict standards for our sales force here in Florida. One sale a day might have been acceptable in North Dakota, but you’re not on the farm anymore, son.”

The kid took his beating, but continued to look at his shoes, so the boss felt kinda bad for chewing him out on his first day. He asked (semi-sarcastically), “So, how much was your one sale for?”

The kid looks up at his boss and says “$101,237.65.

The boss, astonished, says $101,237.65?!? What the heck did you sell?”

The kid says, “Well, first, I sold him some new fish hooks. Then I sold him a new fishing rod to go with his new hooks. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn’t think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4×4 Expedition.”

The boss said, “A guy came in here to buy a fish hook and you sold him a boat and a TRUCK!?” The kid said “No, the guy came in here to buy tampons for his wife, and I said, ‘Dude, your weekend’s shot, you should go fishing.’”

Surprising good news from 🇫🇷 !

"France's Constitutional Council strikes down social media ban for under-15s"

🔗 : lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2…

"In its decision, the Constitutional Council raised concerns about the possible impact on privacy from instituting an age-verification system for all users."

Wow! I was not expecting this at all.

#privacy #AgeVerification #France