I loved Pipio, how dare they take it from me...!

This product outcome is the very reason I no longer invest in so called 'Lifetime Deal' products. You invest not only your money and your time, but you also build processes around these things, and then the carpet gets ripped from beneath your feet and you simply loose that chunk of your business. I have a great fondness for the good old software on a disc days, because once you bought it, you owned it, for as long as your computer would run it, and it mattered not whether the creators ran away, disappeared, sold or closed the business, because that little disc of code was yours; you owned the disc and as such, owned the licence to use the code on that disc, regardless...!

In a crazy way, these fly by nights have indirectly done me a favour, because I've designed my business structure to be much more resilient these days, using open source where possible, or much more mainstream and more expensive software, in order to cope with these likely eventualities...!

I don't even bother to contact Appsumo Any longer because responses became invariably canned. Again, this has helped me, as I have been able to learn from this and design my business processes in such a way as to avoid the same out of date canned items.