It’s been really great to hear what people think of setapp. I want to make clear that we have no intention of switching to ‘Setapp only’ distribution, and we will continue to sell our software for perpetual licenses that you can use until 
goes supernova.
These forums may not be the best place to talk about rental subscriptions since you all have (hopefully) already purchased Hype through our store, the Mac App store, or from a bundle. Converting someone from ownership to rental is a psychological clusterbomb and not what we want to do.
Setapp allows new users to discover and use Hype, and that is definitely one of the value propositions for us. One thing I have been hearing a lot is that being a part of Setapp is damaging to the reputation of Hype – for people who haven’t heard of Hype I’m not sure this is the case because we likely have zero reputation points built up with them. Of all the apps installed by Setapp, new users to Hype may find that it’s is the only one they really want to ‘own’.
We take our relationship with ya’ll seriously.
For another perspective, checkout this discussion on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/setapp-2
And hey I also wanted to mention as a sidebar that many of these apps available through Setapp are absolutely complementary to Hype, web development, and content creation:
- Capto can capture video + audio of your screen and replaces Screenflow for me which launches with UPGRADE ME NOW each time. It also overcomes a shortcoming of Hype (no audio in video exports)
- Focused, Marked, and Ulysses are Markdown processors and writing apps great for exporting styled text (bold, italic, ordered lists, links, etc). Copy + Paste into a Hype element for styled text.
- Marked on its own is amazing if you write or process text. Check it out: http://marked2app.com
- Gifox is great for recording GIFs from any area on your screen. Drop em right into Hype.
- Permute is a powerful video encoding tool that can quickly convert videos to web safe MP4s, OGVs, and Webms. I had used this prior to setapp as a replacement for Miro Video Encoder.
- Rapidweaver (You all know what this does…)
- Simon can be used to monitor your website for downtime, run user tests, and way way more.
- Squash: Drag your exported .hyperesources folder onto Squash to squeeze more bytes out of your images files. Like Imageoptim, but Imageoptim supports animated GIF squishing.
- Yummy FTP Pro: Powerful FTP client with Hype-Friendly things like FTP syncing & scheduling (sync your export folder with your server automatically).
