On: BioRender – Professional Science Figures

[berdon]

Why is this being down-voted?

It is a clip art application with a monthly subscription cost. It seems like a pretty on-the-mark comment.

[psychometry → berdon]

They designed 20,000 specialized vector graphic icons. Do you think it's quick and/or cheap to do that?

[TeMPOraL → psychometry]

It's not. But it's entirely orthogonal to this being an application vs. a Service as a Software Substitute.

[arcticfox → berdon]

This pricing is market-based though; if the market won't support it, the price won't exist. The parent's complaint is strange in that light: it's someone lamenting the loss of apparently vastly under-priced software, but framing it as unjust.

[cosmodisk → berdon]

It may be so.Bu then again,JIRA is essentially an app that allows to drag a fancy digital post-it across 3 different stages..Yet somehow it is Atlassian booked 800M revenue last year...

[TeMPOraL → cosmodisk]

JIRA is much more complex than that; unlike with BioRender, yours is an unfair simplification. Your argument can be rescued though by replacing JIRA with Trello.

[wbl → TeMPOraL]

Which makes it less, not more, useful. Zombie states, too many workflow possibilities tending to the baroque.