[Announcement] The plan for 2021 maintenance

Hello there. Hope you are doing well with react-native-iap.

I’ve not had much time recently to maintain this module and hopefully waiting for contributors to make this module healthy. The problem with maintaining this module was caused by dropping our startup business which heavily relied on in-app-purchase as told in #855.

As I am always struggling to seek new industries to contribute to survive, it is not easy to come back and keep up with the latest things I’ve done in the past (there are so many). Best of all, I reviewed the PR when it came up.

The latest thing, I’ve tried was to earn money in react-native-iap opencollectives and give them to the people who maintain our module. I’ve always wanted to make a firm example project that runs this module but the project, DoobooIAP have been stopped since there is not much motivation to move this forward for just to provide an example.

Therefore, I am thinking of creating a project that runs react-native-iap near future and gets live sponsorships with react-native-iap project instead of opencollectives. That way people can download and see the working examples and contribute to the project and make our module much much more healthy. It would take approximately 2 months (estimating my free time) from now and our module react-native-iap will grow slowly.

Lastly, to bump up the motivation, I’d like to know who is using react-native-iap. Badges, logos are welcomed if you are in organizations.

Thank you all for using this 🙏

[hyochan]

Sad to see you dropping this, so far this is the only viable alternative in the react-native ecosystem for small startups to integrate with in-app purchases and abandoning this package will mean we are left with no alternative.

I think you have miss understanding. I am not dropping it. I am trying to support this with the live example in nearly 2 months.

My startup product has been dropped in 2019 which previously made me stick to this module because iap feature was really important in our product. However, our product ended and I could not participate as much as before working on other things. Therefore, this module wasn’t maintained as well as before. These stories are what I have above and in the past.

In 2021, I am trying to overcome the problem until there is a better option. Hope the mesaage is clear now.

[benjaminMatteJean]

We use this library and we are very happy about it.

Thank you for maintainig it. It really was a game changer