Before the rise of the &#x27;apps&#x27; I was getting quite a bit of my income from Sharewares on the Mac. I stopped when the horde of hipsters started to rely on getting everything and the kitchen sink for $.99.<p>At the point where I started getting angry emails from users of a <i>freeware</i> because it didn&#x27;t behave as they&#x27;d like, I decided I could spend the time doing something else!<p>There was quite a nice market for shareware before that, the infrastructure was quite nice with stuff like &#x27;versiontracker&#x27;, all the emerging &#x27;news&#x27; websites. &#x27;Kagi&#x27; was &#x2F;essential&#x2F; for that market too, as they&#x27;d allowed a normal person to get paid by CC and paypal. Most of the &#x27;users&#x27; were also pretty good back then.<p>Ahhh the good old days blah blah ;-)