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I'd be curious as to what the sales of this are like. It's something I'd be tempted to buy at maybe $5-10 or so, but for ~$20 I'd just use either the System Preferences firewall, or drop down to pf. There aren't that many things that I want to block that it'd be worth it, I think.

Is the price based on dev time, relation to similar products (little snitch is ~$40), or random guesswork?



I don't really believe in pricing things based on dev time. I'd rather price them according to the value they provide.

I wanted to price this one below Little Snitch, but not in the single dollar range. The halfway point seemed good to me.


I share your curiosity, and have adjusted the price as an experiment. Let's see what happens.


Excellent, I hope it works out well, the rest of the thread seems to be of a similar opinion.

You've got my £5.50 anyway, I'd feel bad if I told you what I'd pay, then you set it to that and I didn't. Also, it means I can finally clear some of the localhost cruft out of my /etc/hosts that I'd forgotten about.

Everyone else seems to be clamouring for more features too, so I'll add one that would be useful: the ability to select multiple .app bundles at a time from the finder/select-file dialog window and add them. The Adobe tools I blocked required about 7 click-navigate-click-click operations alone.

The ability to toggle blocks without add/removing them would be nice as well, but (imho) anything else starts to smell of feaping creatures, and they should just buy Little Snitch.




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