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moi2388 on April 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: A single line of code cost $8000

Why on earth are you checking for updates every 5 minutes to begin with?!

Seriously this alone makes me question everything about this app.

dkdbejwi383 on April 29, 2025 [–]

Probably product owner wants to show off a nice chart at their next meeting showing how quickyl users upgrade, as some kind of proxy metric for "engagement"

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