One Developer, 100 Apps, and a Plan to Save Humanity from Unnecessary Software Subscription Fees
FEATURE · THE OWNERSHIP ISSUE
Benjamin Boyce is rebuilding the internet’s most popular subscription tools as one-time purchases — and giving the base code away. With an AI copilot and a 100-day clock, he’s betting that “you’ll own nothing” was never inevitable.
Somewhere in Vietnam, a single developer is trying to do to the subscription economy what the subscription economy did to software you used to buy once and keep. The project is called OneTime Suite, and the premise is almost aggressively simple. Pick a piece of software that millions pay for every month — a link-in-bio page, a screen recorder, a voice-dictation tool — and rebuild it. Then do the two things the incumbents will not: publish the working code, free and open source, and offer anyone who doesn’t want to self-host a one-time price instead of a forever one. Then do it again tomorrow. One hundred times,...
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