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They've created a great platform and established no way to make money off it. It is like Twitter in the early days, but like DHH said, it has the disadvantage o
by frederickcook 17y ago
They've created a great platform and established no way to make money off it. It is like Twitter in the early days, but like DHH said, it has the disadvantage of being on a thousand different niche websites instead of one aggregate.
One possible way to still make a good return off it is take the Twitter path of getting VC money with the hopes of finding some revenue stream down the road. Maybe they can come up with a similar search deal?
- InclinedPlane 17y agoWhere do you get the idea that stackoverflow doesn't make money? It appears to make enough money to pay for its own hardware, its bandwidth costs, the salaries of several employees, and more.
- blasdel 17y agoStackExchange certainly doesn't make any money, and they've promised their customers that they'll have 45 days warning before they start charging. Even then, almost none of their SE customers could afford the proposed fees based on their current income.
- johns 17y agoYou confuse StackOverflow (the company with 3 employees and Joel as a founding partner) and StackExchange (a product of Fog Creek based on the SO code). StackExchange's revenue is less important than the revenue from StackOverflow which is currently derived from ads and the careers site.
- Sukotto 17y agoIt is like Twitter in the early days It's like Twitter now.