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People are accustomed to paying nothing on the web, unless it's a physical product nobody is paying for anything.
by notadoc 9y ago
People are accustomed to paying nothing on the web, unless it's a physical product nobody is paying for anything.
- atroll 9y agoso true, and this is why many startups will fail if they switch to the pay to view model (i have my eyes on you medium)
- jlarocco 9y agoYet Github, Dropbox, Fog Creek, Atlassian, and thousands of others aren't shutting down. Maybe it's time to raise the bar a little bit and stop funding these services that nobody really values but will use because they're "free". Ad supported companies have a strong tendency to invade people's privacy, track people around the internet, provide almost no customer support, and refuse service (or shutdown) on a whim. Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. do it all the time, and it's the same way all the way down to the smaller players. Generally they're just not very good companies.
- marcus_holmes 9y agoI agree. But I've noticed a similar "downvote" in physical conversations with people. I think there's a strong desire for the whole "build a huge audience for your free product, then monetise somehow" model to be valid still (if it ever actually was). Because it's easy, I think. The fact that it doesn't actually work any more is upsetting to people. So they downvote. That's my guess anyway. Not that you'll be able to read this, because this post is about to be downvoted to oblivion too ;)