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The sad fact is that most users don't care about vendor lock-in and it is not in the interest of these companies to make it easy to export your data for use wit
by Mc_Big_G 17y ago
The sad fact is that most users don't care about vendor lock-in and it is not in the interest of these companies to make it easy to export your data for use with another service.
I based my first startup around the fact that my users could pack up and take their site anywhere at any time and made it a one-click affair to do so. Unfortunately, this really wasn't enough of a pain point to have a significant affect on sales.
Major kudos to the dataliberation.org Google engineers for addressing this issue.
- MicahWedemeyer 17y agoI'd like to make the data a little more portable on my site (http://www.obsidianportal.com http://www.obsidianportal.com), but it's one of those edge cases that always gets pushed to the bottom of the TODO list. It's not that I'm sitting here twirling my moustache about vendor lock-in, just that there are so many other more-pressing user-facing things to work on. If my users made a concerted effort to pressure me on this front, I'd probably do something, but so far it's just been a couple of stray "hey, can i get a data dump?" requests.