Maybe it’s impossible to say "I don’t care about this anymore and you should find something else" for a few different reasons: the recurring subs would dry up; he doesn’t want to admit it. OR: he’s been working on pinboard v2 for a couple years and wants to drive people WILD with a sudden drop.
I was an early adopter, though, and I bought in because I perceived the whole point to be "you can have a sustainable, better product than something that gets gobbled up by a megacorp."
Congratulations! Super cool. One of the first applications I was blown away by, for many different reasons, was OmniDictionary <https://web.archive.org/web/20050310043334/http://www.omnigr...>. It was something that I couldn't imagine existing, but did, and it was one of the first apps the company I worked for at the time had created. (It relied on a server!? This was an ENTIRE app?)
And 14 years ago, some servers still existed. They're hard to find now.
It always struck me as something fantastic to a) learn how to interface with a server b) learn cocoa/objective-c/etc c) redesign a simple app (https://www.omnigroup.com/assets/img/app/graffle-7/mac/full-...). Something you've just described in detail. Well, most of it.
But still working on getting back into the habit. After burnout writing for someone else, it’s taken quite a while to want to write _anything_.