Though I think it's good to take paid for your work, the way you don't mention payment at all until the very end is kinda despicable, since you're taking taking advantage of humans' bias towards the sunk cost fallacy.
Though nobody should be offended for a service like this not being free simply because they themselves are unwilling to pay for it, I'd say they're in the right here due to
A: the inability to inform themself about whether or not the service is a paid servuce before using it, and
B: most sites on the internet being free unless explicitly stated, thus it not being unreasonable to assume your site is free too (due to lack of visible prices)
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Yup, I goofed, the user should be aware that it's a paid service up front. As I mentioned in another comment I've been neglecting the homepage for quite a while now, gonna make some tweaks to it now, I definitely don't want to be misleading anyone, and it wasn't an intentional thing to take advantage of anyone's perception of sunk cost.
Yeah, kudos to you for making a post on dev.to asking for people's thoughts, most people would probably just think the user was complaining about paid services and leave it at that ^^
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Though I think it's good to take paid for your work, the way you don't mention payment at all until the very end is kinda despicable, since you're taking taking advantage of humans' bias towards the sunk cost fallacy.
Though nobody should be offended for a service like this not being free simply because they themselves are unwilling to pay for it, I'd say they're in the right here due to
A: the inability to inform themself about whether or not the service is a paid servuce before using it, and
B: most sites on the internet being free unless explicitly stated, thus it not being unreasonable to assume your site is free too (due to lack of visible prices)
Yup, I goofed, the user should be aware that it's a paid service up front. As I mentioned in another comment I've been neglecting the homepage for quite a while now, gonna make some tweaks to it now, I definitely don't want to be misleading anyone, and it wasn't an intentional thing to take advantage of anyone's perception of sunk cost.
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Yeah, kudos to you for making a post on dev.to asking for people's thoughts, most people would probably just think the user was complaining about paid services and leave it at that ^^