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How about a product that doesn't grow by accretion with the goal of acquiring new users or upselling existing users, but rather changes rarely and only in ways
by williamsmj 6y ago
How about a product that doesn't grow by accretion with the goal of acquiring new users or upselling existing users, but rather changes rarely and only in ways that benefit users?
The growth imperative required by VC funding is directly or indirectly to blame for all the awful things about Dropbox mentioned in https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/ https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/. It's difficult to see how a product like Syncthing would be of interest to VCs.
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoThat linked article is actually kind of crap. Contrasting the workflow of downloading Syncthing binary and just executing it vs Dropbox sign up, install & download is a false dichotomy. Nobody who wants to deal with shell level management of a running program that also needs to communicate with other nodes is part of the target user market for Dropbox, totally different worlds, different feature sets, everything.
- ponker 6y agoYeah it’s like Picasso saying “You bought that Thomas Kinkade piece of crap? I could have a bought a brush for $3 and painted something better in just a few weeks!”