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An app can be successful on many metrics, profitability is not the only one. Slack is successful in that it has 10 million daus, 85000 paid users, and it manage
by friedman23 7y ago
An app can be successful on many metrics, profitability is not the only one. Slack is successful in that it has 10 million daus, 85000 paid users, and it managed to have the company valued at 12.4 billion dollars.
Ignoring the valuation of the company I would consider any program with 10 million daus to be successful.
And funny enough 10 million people choose to use slack and 14 million choose to use discord over irc every day despite the supposed "bloat" of the software.
If you are a developer building an mvp and the thing you are worrying about is "bloat" I will put money on you not being successful.
- scarface74 7y agoThere is no definition of success for a for profit company accept profitability. Anyone can sell a bunch of dollars for 95 cents. And as far valuation, Uber and Lyft both have multi billion dollar valuations and are both losing billions a quarter.
- friedman23 7y agoRegardless of your quibbling, if the creators of slack and discord decided to not use modern web frameworks to build their software they wouldn't exist.
- scarface74 7y agoYou think Slack was ever undercapitalized to a point where they couldn’t hire both Mac and Windows developers? Companies have been producing both native Mac and Windows software for over 35 years.