Include Dopamine in the windows store

Xavi3RElvis commented 6 years ago

I'm submitting a...


[ ] Regression 
[ ] Bug report  
[x] Feature request

Please include this in the windows store for monetization, exposure, auto updates etc..

I'm using these versions

Windows version: 10 1803
Dopamine version: 1.5.14

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digimezzo commented 6 years ago

That's not currently planned. I tried this already and these are my reasons for not adding Dopamine to the store:

The process is time consuming and consists of:

Creating a appx package with the converter
Sending the appx package to Microsoft
Waiting for a Microsoft support engineer to contact me
Having the support engineer investigating the package
Waiting for feedback of the support engineer
Fixing issues found in the package
Sending the package again
Waiting for feedback of the support engineer
...

Setting up unclear settings concerning taxes in the developer's portal
Dopamine should remain free of charge (Store monetization provides no advantage)
Dopamine has update notifications and update package is downloaded automatically (Store auto updates provide almost no advantage)

For a single indie developer, the overhead of the store is just too much. Manual work needs to be kept to a minimum. Publishing Dopamine to my website and providing an update notification to everyone, is now an automatic and optimized process. This allows me to focus more on writing code and testing instead of spending time on package creation and publishing. I think a nice balance between developer effort and user friendliness has been reached.

I'll keep this issue open, as I'm getting this question a lot.

digimezzo commented 6 years ago

In case I change my mind, this might be useful: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/uwp-app-package.html

digimezzo / dopamine-windows