For a short time I had a lifetime membership option for $100 and then later at $150. It even had a few takers. But I removed it mainly because:<p>1. It feels strange to promise to provide an ongoing service for a one-off payment (I&#x27;m guessing Sublime Text doesn&#x27;t have a server component, there&#x27;s a big difference there). It sounds risky from my point of view. Am I still obliged to keep providing you the service in 20 years even though you only paid once?<p>2. The people willing to pay up-front are probably the ones most likely to stick around for the long term and provide a lot of recurring revenue. (Hypothesis - may not be true.)<p>3. More one-off payments makes my revenue graph much spiker and less predictable.<p>That said - perhaps you&#x27;re right. If people are much more willing to pay up front I should trade some of the predictability of SaaS for the lucrative but volatile one-off payments. Something to consider when I revisit pricing.