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Arthur - Effortlessly optimize some of your Mac's hidden settings

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Jonas Petermann
"For the price of a cappuccino" — where on earth is a cappucino 15$^^
Sean
@jonas_petermann You are right, we were still experimenting with pricing when it got posted here in PH. It's been updated though
Thanasis
@jonas_petermann #Italy #Greece lol I dont know why I answered when you are totally right !
Paul-Louis Prove
So, $15 for controlling roughly 15 settings?
Sean
@gopietz The price has been updated.
Tom Kinniburgh
People are charging too much for simple tools, whatever happened to giving things away for free?
Sean
@kinnth Free doesn't pay the bills ;-)
Raja Rao DV
If it was up to me, I'd make it 99cents and get 15x people buy it :)
Sean
@rajaraodv You have a good point - we'll definitely take it into consideration
Raja Rao DV
"for the price of a cappuccino" .. $15 cappuccino?!
Mike Kosulin
@rajaraodv 7 days with cappuccino:)
Sean
@rajaraodv I had a $15 cappuccino in Berlin while I built the tool... It's been updated.
Ton
Ahhh, the 2016 version of Secrets!! Love to see the addition of the whole range of hidden settings of Mac OS X and macOS Sierra - there are plenty more. $15 is a bit pricey though...
Sean
@t55 Thanks!
Pedro Vieira
$15 for this? ouch
Sean
@w1tch_ Ping me, I'll happily send you a copy.
Thibault Maekelbergh
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.
Sean
@thibmaekelbergh It's for people who don't want to ticker with defaults write or don't know how.
Thibault Maekelbergh
@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.
Sean
@thibmaekelbergh Yeah, I totally understand. Pricing is really hard unfortunately :(
Jesse Wallace
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?
David Carpe
@jesse_wallace people blindly upvote, then swap apps and blindly click "like"
Sean
@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.
Hemanth.HM
I can do all of these from the CLI for free, thank you.
Sean
@gnumanth Yes, you can definitely do that, but many people don't know how or want to use the CLI to adjust those settings. This is more aimed at people that aren't full stack devs or those who just want a simple way to change these settings without breaking things.
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