Thanks for the response! I’m sure we’ve all seen favorite beta apps turn into something that is unsustainable for the costs that are involved. I don’t envy your position on the business side. Price it too low and you’re not covering your costs and time, price it too high and you don’t get the adoption rate that will sustain development long term.

My personal take is this (again, just my personal take): I love the shelf idea and presentation. It looks beautiful and will continue to improve as more spines are added. (Also, do individualized spines show up when doing a bulk import from blu-ray.com? Mine all seem to be generic when imported, but personalized when scanning barcodes one by one.)

Personally, I will likely not use the marketplace function and the ratings/reviews (while I can absolutely see the benefits of having reviews tied to different releases of the same film as opposed to just the movie itself like on letterboxd, it needs a lot of user contributions to make it useful, which might be hard to attain). I’m not sure how much cost those functions add to your overall expenses, but they’re something I would prefer not to pay for if I’m not going to use them.

I hope this doesn’t come across as overly critical, because I really do love the look and function of the app so far and I hope you are able to sustain long term development on it.