Deploying an infrastructure for a macOS app distribution for the price of a restaurant meal per month (opens in new tab)

A few weeks ago at the time of writing this article, I launched into the development of Thence, a macOS application that remembers a developer's project context to save them time and energy when they resume it after a break. The application code as such is only the tip of the iceberg. Very quickly, the reality on the ground catches up with you: to make a product live, you need a whole ecosystem around it. A space for the community, a software license management system, and internal tools to m...