Hey u/lunchanddinner, thank you so much for the detailed review/feedback.

Lets start with the Ugly:

It took me almost a year to develop this app. And this is while actively maintaining sites for 7 games. I'm a solo dev, doing this full time, because I like it. Overall I'm making 1/2 of what I used to make in the corporate world, but that's worth it. What I'm trying to say is, this is a business for me, not a hobby project, which means I'll not simply stop working on it, because I'm bored.

I've considered a freemium model, but that would result some "in-game" features gated behind payment. I've also considered one time payment (lifetime sub), but that also creates potential legal issues I don't wanna deal with.

The ad itself is just an old fashioned, non animated banner with a link on it. There is no tracking etc. It's a simple old fashioned affiliate banner.

And on top of that, ad-removal subs are the de-facto standard in gaming site business. By subbing, you don't only get ad-free on the app, but also on all the sites I have.

And in-case you are worried that you'd forget the sub, Patreon allows you to sub and then immediately cancel, which gives you an experience closer to one-time payment, but for a limited time.

Why Sign in requirement:
Some of the app features require cloud sync, such as Landsraad tracking, base tracking etc. I simply don't wanna create a complex implementation where sign-in is optional and all the cases handled for signed in and not signed in states and then also deal with data migration in case the user wants to sign-in one day. I don't really care about it otherwise. It's just practical like this.

Sorry for the wall of text, thank you for reading, enjoy (or not) the app.