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Bandcamp gets a cut of sales and has a small (I think remote) team. They scaled slowly with revenues/profits and don't have big marketing spend and lavish offic

Bandcamp gets a cut of sales and has a small (I think remote) team. They scaled slowly with revenues/profits and don't have big marketing spend and lavish offices around the world and a huge workforce.

komali2 9y ago
I always wonder what Twitter would be like if it went this route. I mean, maybe I'm hanging my ignorance on the clothesline here, but the product is built, yea? Do they really need that massive warehouse in the Tenderloin, AND their global offices?
- brandnewlow 9y ago
  Kinda yeah. A big reason Twitter has the ad revenue it does and the celebrities posting that it does is because it throws lots of non technical people at ad agencies and talent management groups to get them on board. Those people need desks.
  - bigbugbag 9y ago
    So twitter is nothing but marketing and PR ? Why am I not surprised ?
- zjaffee 9y ago
  Bandcamp should be viewed as the indie record store of the digital age. It's can keep it's cool without being fancy, and niche users will spend money there to support the bands that they personally enjoy. Additionally, band camp doesn't require nearly the same server load that a social media company would, nor anything fancy technically. Twitter on the other hand could never have been built without being venture funded from the beginning, the growth of their product was only possible because it could scale and have the kind of uptime it did, and that venture funding allowed them to hire the engineering talent that made it all possible. Maybe now, twitter could lay off 90% of their staff and figure something out, but it seems pretty unlikely that would be the case.
deft 9y ago
Exactly. The only problem with soundcloud is how much money they waste.