Open source the thing and let the community take it forward.
I’m not a fan of subscription models either. They seem to work if you are the market leader and you literally have people over a barrel if they can’t access their files any more. This is how Adobe got away with it - big agencies and studios need Adobe simply because moving away to other apps like Affinity will be even more costly and time consuming than just lobbing £40+ per seat per month for continuing access.
Richard L. is a pretty shrewd bloke, and I expect he’s looked at this very carefully, and other models to get an income from Freeway, but found them all to be lacking just because the amount of cash coming in will not support the people needed to keep Freeway alive and relevant. You need developers, support, people to test, R&D time, premises, access to legal folk, accounting, as well as somewhere to put them all. That’s a massive monthly bill. Any pricing model has to support that.
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