{"id":50588,"date":"2025-12-29T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50588"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:39:06","slug":"mailmate-license-model-one-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/mailmate-license-model-one-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"MailMate License Model: One Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freron.com\/2025\/new-license-key-model-one-year-later\/\">Benny Kj&aelig;r Nielsen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/freron.com\/2025\/new-license-key-model-one-year-later\/\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve previously described the transition to the new pricing model as a huge gamble because I would no longer be selling license keys for $50. This was the majority of the revenue generated. So far, this gamble has paid off since I&rsquo;ve had an increase in revenue when comparing 2025 to 2024. It does not correspond to what one (where I live) would expect from a full time job, but it does mean that I&rsquo;m going to continue full time development in 2026. I believe that is good news for MailMate users and I&rsquo;m really thankful for <em>all<\/em> of the, new and old, MailMate development patrons\/subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Some users might have noticed that I haven&rsquo;t uploaded any test releases of MailMate for quite a while (more than 2 months). This is not because I&rsquo;ve not been working on MailMate. It&rsquo;s because I&rsquo;ve been working on some broad changes to very old core parts of MailMate, in particular, related to parsing\/editing of emails and memory management.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/21\/mailmaven-1-0\/\">MailMaven 1.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/18\/mailmate-2-0-beta\/\">MailMate 2.0 Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/19\/google-removing-support-for-less-secure-apps\/\">Google Removing Support for &ldquo;Less Secure Apps&rdquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Kj&aelig;r Nielsen: I&rsquo;ve previously described the transition to the new pricing model as a huge gamble because I would no longer be selling license keys for $50. This was the majority of the revenue generated. So far, this gamble has paid off since I&rsquo;ve had an increase in revenue when comparing 2025 to 2024. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-12-29T21:20:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"ba025c44-d625-4bf9-a06e-a92831615b14","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-12-30T02:39:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AugJcRNYlS_mgbqkoMWFbFA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,14,30,32,2742,206],"class_list":["post-50588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-emailclient","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-mailmate"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50592,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50588\/revisions\/50592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}