A sad aspect of subscription software is how you’re almost necessarily making things that can’t last. Software has always struggled with ephemerality, but subscriptions are condemned to die with their owner (person or co.). I want to make things that have a shot of outliving me.
Forget even outliving you though, 5 years from now, don’t you want to be able to show people this thing you worked really hard on and were so proud of? Like, actually let them touch it, not dig up some video walkthrough on YouTube or something.
It’s funny because software contains the key building blocks to make truly timeless artifacts that don’t decay like physical items and can be copied effortlessly for safe storage. But instead, we’ve found ways of making the average lifespan of apps be less than a physical book.
And subscription software is just another step in that direction, where even if the software actually manages to *run* years from now on whatever computer system you can find, it still can’t *do* anything because the subscription management system is probably long gone.
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