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This comment seems almost entirely inapplicable to the article. Where did you get the sense that the founder[s] spent too much time working on the technology?
by Permit 9y ago
This comment seems almost entirely inapplicable to the article. Where did you get the sense that the founder[s] spent too much time working on the technology?
There are a number of reasons for which Gittip/Gratipay may have failed, but "Focusing too much on the tech" doesn't seem to be one of them.
- swang 9y agoProbably because of this paragraph from the article: > At Gratipay we’ve spent the past year gearing up to relaunch with a renewed focus on open source. However, funding open source is almost entirely about marketing, and we spent most of the past year writing code instead. File this one under, “open source needs all the skill sets,” but also, “startups need all the skill sets.”
- nodesocket 9y agoBingo. @Permit go back and read it again.