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What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble
- thomasedwards 7y agoPreviously on Lost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20294464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20294464 (link to his personal blog rather than Medium)
- tuananh 7y agoyuck, since when medium added paywall?
- thomasedwards 7y agoYeah, been going a bit downhill recently.
- mmerlin 7y agoprepend outline.com to the url https://outline.com/medium.com/dribbble/what-i-learned-co-founding-dribbble-8680f6816e3d https://outline.com/medium.com/dribbble/what-i-learned-co-fo...
- flixic 7y agoHN discussion on original link is very good, not to mention that personal blog is actually better designed than Medium and has no paywall. Don't waste your time on Medium.
- gingeruser206 7y agoIt’s for their paying subscribers. Welcome to monetization of content.
- codeddesign 7y agoWelcome to a world without ads. Don’t like ads? Get use to paywalls.
- anchpop 7y agoThis shouldn't get downvoted. If you don't like paywalls, and you don't like ads, what business model exactly should websites like medium follow?
- meerita 7y agoI don't understand why people publish paid content. How the hell are we gonna read it. BTW, I've read the article and is not that worth subscribing medium.
- LilBytes 7y agoYou're paying for Medium? Would you say it's worth it? $50 per annum is less than what I pay for the Guardian. I don't solely get my content from The G but considering the good work they do where it's _mostly_ or at least _more so_ unbiased in it's reporting than most. I feel the money to support that endeavour is well spent.
- meerita 7y agoNo, I am not paying. But I accesed that article withtout the paywall. To be honest, I am not agaisnt this kind of business model, but it's incompatible with HN spirit of sharing accesible knowledge.
- AJRF 7y agoHas there ever been a discussion on blocking Medium articles on HN? Almost every time a link is posted on HN a vast quantity of the comments are about how Medium sucks/is annoying. Medium rots Google results and now it's bleeding into HN daily.
- eli 7y agoDo you prefer ads? Or you just don't think writers should get paid?
- huhtenberg 7y agoAre you suggesting that Dan wrote this article to make money?
- meerita 7y ago99% of Medium aren't dedicated writers, journalists.
- aloknnikhil 7y agoMost things are very generic and not any different from the million other blogs on "How to make your startup successful". This does not justify being behind a paywall. But I don't fully agree with "Don’t take funding" as generic advice. I mean, sure, if you can afford not to, do so by all means. 90% of the founders don't have another choice. So, you will end up being dictated by the VC.