Comment by 🚀 LucasMW
@Bobsey Does elementary appcenter offer pay what you want? I didn't know . This is interesting!
I know, this is why I included the poll, so I could measure the sentiment.
What do you mean by FLO or normal pricing?
Sep 02 · 3 months ago
Poll Results
1. do it
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2. don't do it
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3. show results
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49 votes were cast.
3 Later Comments ↓
Yep they do. Most apps in the AppCenter are part of the Flathub or Ubuntu repos and not monetized but apps submitted to Elementary (that meet the requirements) can be monetized. Elementary takes a 30 % cut (or 50 cents for low prices)
FLO software stands for free/libre/open (source) software (FLO is basically the adjective to FLOSS which is more commonly used)
and by normal pricing I meant fixed pricing i.e. if you say it costs $5 it costs $5 and you can't pay more or less than $5 as opposed to pay-what-you-can/want pricing where you can select or enter a price that is lower or even higher than those (suggested) $5\
It won't just work for paywalled content, it would also allow donations to software, or even shareware programs, etc. Expanding it beyond programs is cool too. My only concern is if you plan on using stripe, which probably requires a redirect to their stripe page, or if you'll store credit card info in your own DB (which I would not prefer, myself).
@clseibold . I've implemented stripe in the web version but the idea was always to support multiple payment options and give the user the ability of doing payments with privacy in mind.
Currently, the web version doesn't even require a login, but still uses stripe and requires the email to send a download link.
I think an option is supporting some cryptocurrency payments will work as an alternative to give credit card info to stripe but I would still require an email to send keys and download links. (Or a store account...)
Original Post
I am toying with the idea of creating a software store in gemini. (pay and download binaries kind of workflow) My idea is to port what I have here: to a text based experience. I think it is possible. I believe it would be the first of its kind as well.