$8/month is a bit steep, but I snatched $5/month early bird pricing and I consider that to be a lot more acceptable of a price.
Edit: worth pointing out there's a 40% discount for non-profits and students: https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Education+and+...
It's also hard to do micro payments on the internet ironically, on that 8$ you can easily pay almost a dollar of fees. If that wasnt the case I expect we would have a much different internet...
I just had similar sticker shock recently to the remote access service for Home Assistant, which is $6.50/mo. You still have to host and maintain HA locally, the service just allows you to easily access it remotely.
Or Kagi Search, which charges $25/mo for unlimited searches.
For me, if it’s more than $5/mo it better be something I really need.
I think nearly $100 a year is steep for something that doesn't meet my needs (I use a community sync plugin instead). So I made a one-time donation instead because I still want to support the core product. I only recently realised you can do this: https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+and+payment/Catalyst+licen...
And I'm one of those people (there's dozens of us!), hence why I said it's a bit steep for me.
I can afford to spend some money on subscriptions (~$70-80/month last time I summed it up), but that sum means a lot more to me than it does to someone earning six figures. I have to budget it between dozens of different services that all want a small amount on a monthly basis.
But you're right, I do use it every day, which is why I have decided to allocate some of that amount to pay for a feature that I can absolutely replicate without paying. Similarly, some of that amount goes to NGOs even though I also don't get anything tangible out of it.
You simply synchronize the folder as with the desktop apps. Works right of the box without any workarounds.
Obsidian is great, but I'm not paying over 90 bucks a year for a simple file syncing service I can build in less than an hour.
Maybe the publish feature is worth it, but I'm content with the ObsidianPublisher workflow I set up for now.
Actively working on that. It’s a feature I’ll need since I mess up *very often*