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You don't quite answer your own question, but I enjoyed the article. As someone who is trying to push forward his single-man business, I appreciate this kind of
by jventura 10y ago
You don't quite answer your own question, but I enjoyed the article. As someone who is trying to push forward his single-man business, I appreciate this kind of articles which do propose some opportunities that we can choose to pursuit.
I'm curious about pay once web apps, though. I've thought about that myself, as I'm basically building consumer software and consumers are more reluctant to use subscription based software, but I'm curious how companies can guarantee their long term existance? For instance, if said company stops being profitable, it will eventually have to close doors and shut down their servers. What will happen to their users? For desktop apps, this is much less relevant.. Any thoughts?
- cbanek 10y agoI think you've hit on that once a company goes under, basically you're stuck with whatever lock-in at the time. Sure a SaaS could evaporate tomorrow, but even desktop apps get old and start breaking within a year or two, faster if it's using some tech that Apple is trying to get rid of. At this point, it's funny because the business has the leverage, even though it's going under. I guess you can sell the code / rights, or open source... To be fair, this problem is everywhere. Open source projects are abandoned all the time.