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Apoorv Darshan
Apoorv Darshan

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Why I removed all payments from my app and went free

Scowld used to have subscriptions, a paywall, and voice credits. I deleted all of it.

The new model is bring-your-own-key (BYOK): users plug in their own AI/voice provider keys and pay those providers directly, at cost. There's no markup to justify and no billing code to maintain.

This removed an entire category of complexity — RevenueCat, StoreKit products, receipt validation, server-side entitlements — and made the app genuinely free.

It's also open source now: https://github.com/apoorvdarshan/scowld

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