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I’ve known this guy for years and he’s far from an asshole. He’s spent years on this business and finally had a break. Its unfortunate he chose to phrase thin

I’ve known this guy for years and he’s far from an asshole. He’s spent years on this business and finally had a break. Its unfortunate he chose to phrase things the way he did but this is a one man band with a hacker as CEO who does PR about as well as an average PR person does full stack development.

thesmallestcat 9y ago
Anyone know what happened to the cofounder's involvement? Last mention I found was from 2014, it seems that substack is in Hawaii now doing his own thing.
- linkmotif 9y ago
  Yeah who owns this nowadays? I can’t imagine the author of this was substack. Though I don’t know the guy...
rootlocus 9y ago
> I’ve known this guy for years and he’s far from an asshole. Probably not to his friends. But rofling at masses of indians tweeting on command (fooled into thinking tweeting will unlock a service) is a "dick move".
ainiriand 9y ago
I take your word for that, but it is not an excuse to disconnect users/numbers/visits from real human beings. So you see that people in India are using a 20$ phone to use whatsapp with your app and the only thing that comes to your mind is how can you rip them off with a daily subscription that wasn't there before? And a crooked lottery?!?! You need to have a very small amount of empathy to do that.
- thesmallestcat 9y ago
  A feeble attempt at offsetting the cost of massive server load is not trying to "rip them off."
- girvo 9y ago
  Those server costs do not pay for themselves. Me personally, I’d likely just block them altogether.
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    "I'm sorry, I can't support this use case so I'm blocking Jio phones" is fine. "You have to pay for this service" is fine. "Please tweet to use the service" is fine. Saying "please tweet to use the service" and then blocking people anyway is lying. Making fun of people for doing what you asked so they can fulfill one of their needs is scummy. Telling people to Tweet to increase their chances in a lottery and then not actually doing it is also scummy.

thesmallestcat 9y ago

Anyone know what happened to the cofounder's involvement? Last mention I found was from 2014, it seems that substack is in Hawaii now doing his own thing.

linkmotif 9y ago
Yeah who owns this nowadays? I can’t imagine the author of this was substack. Though I don’t know the guy...

rootlocus 9y ago

> I’ve known this guy for years and he’s far from an asshole. Probably not to his friends. But rofling at masses of indians tweeting on command (fooled into thinking tweeting will unlock a service) is a "dick move".

ainiriand 9y ago

I take your word for that, but it is not an excuse to disconnect users/numbers/visits from real human beings. So you see that people in India are using a 20$ phone to use whatsapp with your app and the only thing that comes to your mind is how can you rip them off with a daily subscription that wasn't there before? And a crooked lottery?!?! You need to have a very small amount of empathy to do that.

thesmallestcat 9y ago
A feeble attempt at offsetting the cost of massive server load is not trying to "rip them off."
girvo 9y ago
Those server costs do not pay for themselves. Me personally, I’d likely just block them altogether.
- StavrosK 9y ago
  "I'm sorry, I can't support this use case so I'm blocking Jio phones" is fine. "You have to pay for this service" is fine. "Please tweet to use the service" is fine. Saying "please tweet to use the service" and then blocking people anyway is lying. Making fun of people for doing what you asked so they can fulfill one of their needs is scummy. Telling people to Tweet to increase their chances in a lottery and then not actually doing it is also scummy.