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OpenHunt tried solving a problem for the content makers without providing any additional benefit to the content consumers. It's a nice, heart-warming mission.
by anthony_franco 11y ago
OpenHunt tried solving a problem for the content makers without providing any additional benefit to the content consumers.
It's a nice, heart-warming mission. But in the end of the day, content is king, that's what consumers want.
There have been many examples of people rallying around a "free and open" version of a service. They fail to realize that the end consumer barely cares. Look at voat (Reddit), app.net (Twitter), Diaspora (Facebook), even ycreject.com (Y Combinator) tried to be a thing for a while.
If someone is able to make it "free and open" while also making it a better experience than the alternative, then it'll be a big success. But so far everyone gets that wrong.
- jarcane 11y agoIt is especially sad because often these attempts fail to consider the elements of the original that caused it to "suck" so bad in the first place. so even when they do survive, they're seldom any better than what they've replaced, because no one's bothered to actually reflect on how the project affected the social atmosphere of the place.