Or, given it's a Mac app, just have the Mac app store take care of updates. That...

rvz · 2025-04-29T15:50:43 1745941843

> Or, given it's a Mac app, just have the Mac app store take care of updates. That's part of the value that using the app store service gives you,

And pay Apple their 30% cut on your revenue? No thanks.

> the other one being not spending thousands in accidental data transfer when you do auto updates wrong.

Or just actually write proper automated tests for basic features first, before a large refactor to prevent introducing issues like this from happening again?

While I respect the author's honesty in this mistake, the main takeaway here is not mentioned and that is just writing proper automated tests as their impression on this post is that there aren't any.

jbverschoor · 2025-04-29T16:47:27 1745945247

2% of that already goes to stripe or whatever you use. after a year it's 15%. It also gives your both a distribution and marketing channel.

It was good enough for netflix etc.

*I* don't want applications to be able to update itself. Look at malware zoom for example.

It's funny that people don't like telemetry, but at the same time they're ok with regular software update checks + installs.

Chaosvex · 2025-04-30T03:42:29 1745984549

The same Netflix that's been spats with Apple over avoiding app store fees by flouting policies that had other apps kicked out of the store? I'd suggest that it was, in fact, not good enough for Netflix.