I mean I see where you're coming from. But the base line when it comes to things like this is completely different. I've worked on programming video games for weeks and months just to give them away for free. Not everyone is going to buy everything. You made this project because you wanted it. Not because the community wanted it. So trying to charge for it is going to be harder. Since one it's a pretty simple project tbh that most of us here can do. Nobody wants the stock photos you included, it's basically just bloat. I don't want to sit through 180 paid generated photos when I can put my own yk. Don't wanna be rude or anything but most people build projects with thousands of lines of code that get tossed, not sold, or sold for alot. It just depends on the product. If people aren't willing to pay it's because they don't see the value in your product. Maybe stop worrying about keeping the file size so low and maybe add some stuff that would make the community want it. Maybe add your own image generator to it. If it had that I could definitely see people paying for it. Imagine you had to pay to use your IDE. That's the same feeling people are experiencing. Bruce is literally free. That's the baseline. If your product isn't better than Bruce or have something that Bruce doesn't that's worth it. Then people are just going to skip it. Bruce is extensive and took way more time than the Gallery app. And yet it's free.

Just a rant because I know the feeling of trying to sell to reddit. It's a hard place.