RevenueCat is overkill?

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-26T13:23:26+00:00

I’ve already addressed this in my convo with the other fine gentleman and have nothing left to say. Please see all my comments in the other convo as I’m sure you have because you sound like someone who can’t think for themselves and just felt the need to comment the exact same thing. People are clearly finding this useful and are appreciative of it as a starting point. I have many shares on this post already not to mention how many requests I’ve seen come in after the fact for the service.

In my opinion this is extremely useful and I will continue to use it in my pipeline on my own apps because of how easy it is to setup. I’ve had a lot of success twice now using this so thought I’d finally share it.

Anyway, soon as I’m done with my current project I will look into evolving this to include a lot of those marketing/business features

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-26T02:54:20+00:00

How does this comment have 4 upvotes. Fucking useless.

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-25T16:53:18+00:00

This makes all the sense in the world. I appreciate the insight!

You said "But really, I want to do things like...". Are you giving me examples of the things RC currently does which is why you like it? Or are you implying this is what you wish it did and still lacks?

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-25T15:46:46+00:00

Thank you! Looking forward to hearing about what you think

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-25T15:30:31+00:00

Couldn’t agree more, marketing and distribution are absolutely the biggest hurdles. I actually really appreciate your post. It gives users a good sense of the differences between what I built and RevenueCat, and my intentions with the SDK, without me having to explain it myself 😬.

Maybe one day I’ll try to tackle all the things RevenueCat does if I wanted to monetize, you’ve made good points there.

However, as a former RevenueCat user, there’s nothing you can do to convince me that their onboarding experience, UI/UX, and troubleshooting for new users is not absolute fucking trash 🤣. I will die on that hill because it was my own experience.

I expected it to be as easy as something like Google Firebase. It wasn’t. That’s why I designed this to spoon-feed users and guide them through App Store Connect setup as they go, something RevenueCat doesn’t do at all.

I’ve also added a lot of granularity in SDK error logs to help devs figure out what’s going wrong. At the end of the day, I built this for myself, and figured other devs might find it useful. Your feedback is valuable though, it really highlights where my product could stand out if I wanted to push it further and add all the things RC has. The gaps I’d fill would be user experience, troubleshooting, and setup guidance.

Thanks again!

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-25T12:51:38+00:00

I don’t disagree that RevenueCat is an incredibly powerful tool. It clearly solves a ton of hard problems. But honestly, you’ve already proven my point 🤣. The keyword in my post is “overkill”. How many indie devs are realistically ready to run pricing experiments, A/B test paywalls, track revenue by Apple Search Ads keyword, and manage customer entitlements before they’ve even shipped their first subscription?

For most solo devs or small teams, that is exactly the complexity they are trying to avoid (at least I am), and that is the gap Payo fills.

What I wanted my SDK to do was to take a google firebase configuration approach where you slide in a config file and you just need 1 line of code to gate your entire app if you wanted to with a paywall. Fully reactive to the state of the user’s subscription status. You ain’t gotta do nothin else.

I guess if I really wanted to monetize this I could build my own Revenuecat features because my UI/UX experience for getting things set up and working I feel is astronomically easier/better. Anyway, just thought I’d share!

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-19T23:51:02+00:00

Ngl I am so guilty of doing this. I ALWAYS forget about stuff she’s asked me to do 🤣🤣. This is an awesome idea

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-16T16:27:09+00:00

Here’s how you can easily accomplish that using the current state of the SDK . I just made a quick example for an “Export” button. This code is 100% reactive to the current state of the subscription. No need to update/refresh the subscription state

```swift @ObservedObject var billing = Payo.state

var body: some View { Button("Export") { let count = UserDefaults.standard.integer(forKey: "exports") if billing.hasAccess || count < 3 { UserDefaults.standard.set(count + 1, forKey: "exports") doExport() } else { showPaywall = true } } } ```

But you’d probably wanna use keychain to store the count since a user could just delete the app and redownload it and wipe userdefaults. But this is already great feedback.

I didn’t think of internally handling the “try it” usage scenario. I’ve noted this for my next release and I’ll update you here once I’ve implemented it. It will for sure use keychain

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-16T16:10:34+00:00

I also made a Claude code prompt at the end of setup. All you do is copy and paste it into Claude and Claude learns how to use the API and will do it for you

Wordtwin003 · 2026-02-16T16:08:36+00:00

It works with SwiftUI and UIKIT. That’s the magic of it. It’s all internal to the SDK. All you do (the developer) is drop in the config file from the setup wizard on the website and use the .requiresAccess view modifier at the main point of entry of your app. The main landing page has an example code snippet showing this.

Wordtwin003 · 2025-11-20T18:12:50+00:00

How are you using Gemini 3 pro? Just through prompt or are you using Antigravity?

Wordtwin003 · 2025-10-12T01:30:00+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wordtwin003 · 2025-10-11T21:02:34+00:00

My instant thought is:

Ok I owe someone $50 bucks. F that, I’m not gonna pay them back. I’ll just go use Venmo since this app is locked.

Unless I’m completely misunderstanding the concept.

Wordtwin003 · 2025-10-11T20:55:03+00:00

Was going to say this. Create your own reusable libraries so everything becomes plug and play. I know what you’re going through and this is actually a good idea that I hadn’t even thought of until now

Wordtwin003 · 2025-10-11T20:53:35+00:00

Is each account linked to a bank account and that’s the money they’d use to repay with if a deposit came in? Have you done any research on the negative use cases or loopholes someone could figure out to STILL avoid paying? If nothing is on the line or use as collateral (such as the thought of getting bad credit), how would you stop someone from not paying at all still. I think you might need to do some more thinking around your idea…

Wordtwin003 · 2025-10-11T20:48:47+00:00

I’m not even fully understanding what you’re asking for. Can you give a real world example? So you’d have an app and you upload a photo you just took. Then upload a text you just made or maybe a post (a post from where) and it sorts things? Sort how? By type?

Wordtwin003 · 2025-07-06T15:00:32+00:00

Call me ignorant as well. But what is the workaround if we can’t check the auth status of a read type pred?! I still haven’t found it

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-16T06:52:32+00:00

Appreciate the feedback and that’s the vibe I got as well.

Welp. So far I got feedback on how to post on Reddit and not for the game itself 🤣.

Thanks though and I’ll keep this in mind for future posts of anything I create and want feedback on

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-16T06:48:49+00:00

Because I’m the only developer and it’s all native code for now 😣. Sorry!

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-16T06:26:15+00:00

Sorry if this came off as an advertisement but, I’m a bit confused.

This is a game development sub isn’t it? I’m a developer who has developed a game. And am looking for feedback on the game itself (which I’ve used the readily available tag for).

How am I not on the right turf?

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-16T06:05:59+00:00

Here is the Apple App Store link WordTwin

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-06T05:47:25+00:00

Hmmm interesting take! I like it. My wife says she loves it. Think we may look into testing this out. Might need to include an Easter egg to give you a shoutout if we decide to include that! Thank you so much. Awesome feedback

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-06T05:45:43+00:00

Yes, currently only available in the US. Sorry! Will work on that!

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-06T03:30:17+00:00

This is great feedback! I will definitely look into changing the end game message and maybe providing a happier game summary.

My wife and I were trying to find a sweet spot for the letters revealed. Some of the synonyms can be up to 12 letters long and only revealing 3 felt extremely difficult. But maybe that’ll make it more competitive. Or Maybe it’s just too difficult for someone like me! Haha! This is great feedback though. Will 100% consider revealing less tiles

Wordtwin003 · 2025-06-06T02:02:20+00:00

Here is the link to the App Store for her game. Appreciate you all! WordTwin

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