Sorry, my previous response misunderstood your meaning. JSON For You does draw inspiration from JSON Crack for its landing page, thank you for designing such a minimalist homepage and I will put JSON CRACK to my acknowledgment. In terms of functionality, the two products actually have significant differences:

1. JSON Crack focuses more on visualization, whereas JSON For You aims to be a all-in-one JSON toolkit. This is why you'll find many buttons on JSON For You's page, leading to decreased readability and increased user learning curve (though I've tried my best to optimize this).

2. JSON Crack supports visualization for multiple data types including TOML and YAML, but JSON For You does not support this, nor does it plan to.

3. I've noticed JSON Crack offers AI functionalities to manipulate JSON data, but JSON For You will not pursue such features. Instead, it provides this through local tools like jq.

4. When it comes to comparison features, JSON Crack seems to provide graph-based comparison, which JSON For You does not do (nor is it its goal). Additionally, JSON For You offers text comparison, which JSON Crack does not.

Maybe I should provide a comparison table on the homepage to help everyone better understand the differences between the two products :)

Belittling competitors is not a good competitive strategy, the community is smart and won't be fooled by it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32626873). If you want to promote something under my post, that's fine, people will make their choices. But if you're going to unjustly discredit JSON For You by ignoring the facts, I find that unwelcome and offensive. I suggest we compete by improving our products, rather than by smearing each other or engaging in price wars :)

I'm never against competition, but cloning a project is not something comparable. You’ve basically cloned an open-source project and are now trying to make money off of it. I took a look at your Terms and Privacy Policy, and you copied them word for word? That’s really disappointing. You haven’t added any substantial features to the project beyond duplicating it, and there are plenty of others doing the same what you've done. I’m honestly shocked that you’d have the audacity to post it here.

You must check this: https://www.v2ex.com/t/1075891

This guy posted in some forum accusing you of attacking him. But Chinese coders roasted him so well, he deleted his original post. You might need some translation, but it's satisfying!

A great tool that fills the gap of lacking a preview feature in the terminal with jq. However, for data processing, I think jq's DSL is more concise and user-friendly.

nice work!

Thank you for your support! I have indeed put a lot of thought into it, and it's something I use often myself. The crashing with large data volumes is a known issue that many have feedbacked on. I have plans to optimize it, but I'm not overflowing with good ideas. If anyone could offer some suggestions, I would be immensely grateful!

What's causing it to crash, the left panel or the right?

Are you using CodeMirror for the left panel?

The issue isn't with the editor itself, but rather because rendering becomes very time-consuming when there are too many DOM nodes. This is due to the specification limiting to only one main UI thread.

You should learn webgl and do particle rendering.

Thanks. The main issue is that we can't reuse existing components, so the development workload will be quite large, but I'll think about it.

Oh, my bad. I'll change it.

I understand your point, but I believe that a one-time payment is not conducive to its ongoing development. Think about it, if you charge all the money at once, where does the motivation to continue updating come from after a year or two? But indeed, there is an issue with pricing. You mentioned the $5-$10 price range for a perpetual license, right? If it were a subscription model, how much would you be willing to pay per month?

Never argue with a customer. The customer doesn’t give 2 cent about your motivation, it’s not their job. When I saw the pricing I had a good laugh and moved on.

If the only motivation for this product is money, then it will die in no time. Comparing the value I’m getting to the 7€ / month on Amazon prime, or the 10€ for Apple Music – that’s the value perception you’re competing against.

If you tell me you need 120€ a year from multiple customers to maintain and improve a json app good luck. One time purchase – get access – done. You can later upsell me with even more features in a v2 or whatever. I also doubt this tool has a lot of running costs to warrant this much.

Maybe if you work in SF and you make 300k a year so 10 bucks don’t mean much, but for the rest of the world 10$ is a lot of money / month.

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts! Based on feedback from multiple people, it's clear there's a significant issue with the product pricing, which I'll seriously reflect upon! From your perspective, there seem to be two issues:

1. The price is too high.

2. Dislike for subscription-based payments.

I have no problem with the first point, but I'm curious why everyone dislikes the subscription model so much? Or at the end of the day, is it really because the price is too high?

> why everyone dislikes the subscription model so much

Because _everything_ is a subscription today, and even more of them make people angry. When a tool doesn't have any "infrastructure" costs per se, it rubs people the wrong way. Most don't want yet another subscription to manage

Interesting perspective. Let me share my thoughts, which might relate to consumer psychology:

- With a buyout system, users perceive that they own the item after payment.

- With a subscription system, users perceive that they are renting the item after payment.

When there's a mismatch in expectations (I pay to own, but you only let me rent), users feel deceived and angry. The same issue occurs with the ownership of accounts in online games, where some game companies state in their terms of service that the game account belongs to them, not the user, naturally leading to user outrage.

I wonder if you've ever seen an expert using Visual Studio in its heyday... Prototype GUIs could be up and running within minutes. The same was true of Java Swing, in the right hands. These technologies have fallen out of favor now, but I find it hard to believe that today's swirling pool of web frameworks have reduced the cost of GUIs compared to anything other than Web in the days of jquery. What they certainly do is change how these tools are delivered to users and customers. Perhaps that's for the better, I don't know. But I miss having all _my_ stuff on _my_ PC, that's for sure.

I strongly agree with your view. I used to be a loyal user of Sublime Text, it performed exceptionally well and was incredibly fast, which I loved. However, perhaps I misspoke, what I meant to say is that due to the low development costs and rich ecosystem of web technologies, current applications are more inclined to use web technology stacks when developing GUIs. But (yes, there's always a "but"), the performance of web applications is still far behind that of native applications (although there has been significant improvement).

The "rapid" in development of web technologies is a lie.

Haha, that's a sharp critique, and I've also felt that the development of the web isn't fast enough. But actually, when you think about the web from ten years ago, or even twenty years ago, there has been significant progress.

You mean offering it for free to everyone, but driving traffic to social media? Also, can I ask, from a consumer's perspective, what pricing do you think would be acceptable for my product?

Thank you all for your suggestions and feedback, really helpful to me. I am offering a coupon for the first year free (limited to 10 uses) as a thank you: UZNZQ5NW