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Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providing an alternative to Google Play which doesn’t compromise on technical excellence and protecting our users. Aligned with this mission, over 42,000 people worldwide trust Accrescent to deliver their apps safely. Now, we need your help to continue.
Accrescent has always been free to use because we believe security shouldn’t have to come at a price. We also understand we’re trusted by our users to secure a sensitive and significant portion of their lives — the apps they use — so we’ve built Accrescent transparently, making our code open source so others can run and inspect it as they please.
I’m a fan of acrescent but something about nearly $6000 in monthly costs doesn’t smell right.
They need $5800/month in recurring donations to fund a full time developer to be working on Accrescent, implementing new features, creating new tooling, etc. The blog post clearly says this.
Yeah thanks I can read. It is not clear at all.
An example is that it says “to fund full-time development”, and you’ve assumed thats a “full-time developer.”
What are we talking here - is it a salary for someone? Overheads? Marketing? Hosting etc? What will donations give us? Is there a roadmap? If anything, the store needs more apps. A slick new frontend is pretty far down my list of wants.
And before you come back with another spikey comment remember that I’m saying this as a fan of Acrescent. I’m not suggesting there’s anything nefarious going on. If they are were asking VC’s for cash this is the information they’d be expected to provide.