The number of apps that fail or are abandoned after being sold as lifetime deals is very frustrating. Ocoya, TubeIQ, Creator ai, Kwhero, Bramework, BitePlay, Feedback Link, SEOdity, Maekersuite, Justinmind, CubeWP. Honestly I can keep going. And that just me!

We spend our money expecting the app to keep working and improving. But often, after a year or two, support stops, updates disappear, and the app is no longer useful.

AppSumo’s one-year guarantee does not really protect buyers. It can take more than a year to notice that a company has stopped supporting its product. By then, the refund period is already over.

AppSumo has a lot of experience and data from past deals. They should do better checks before promoting apps and follow up with the companies afterward. Buyers should not carry all the risk when an app fails.

Right now, it feels like AppSumo only cares about making the sale, not whether the startup succeeds or whether customers lose the money they invested. After seeing so many apps fail or get abandoned, I have lost my trust in AppSumo.