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 Where to start. Charging $10 a month for basically nothing, other than access to a TestFlight, which should be free anyways. 

TestFlight isn’t meant to be used to extort your users for more money, it’s meant to test apps BEFORE you charge people for it. 

Charging $50 for a $3 dollar hat. What was it, $30 for a shirt, Are they laced with gold? LMFAO. 
 IMO, these things aren't about paying for the item, they're about supporting the development of an app that you use.  
 I could reconcile that with the ten dollar monthly charge, but there’s no justification for charging someone $50 for a $3 hat. That’s just insulting. 
 Thank you Derek! That’s exactly it 💜💜💜 
 No one is forcing anyone to buy any of this. 

This “free” mentality stems from being the product of Google, Microsoft, and countless other marketing campaigns. 

You can still use Damus without purple
You can opt to not buy a hat or shirt

You can make the economic decision to not pay and even say it’s too much but this “everything should be free” shit is dumb. 
 Nice story.