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Wouldn’t a better metric be: value delivered/interaction? So setting up some service one which keeps delivering value seems to more valuable than something whic

• billyhoffman 5y ago
  Sure, but how do you measure “value delivered?” Even assuming you could measure some quantity that your product delivered (for example time the product saves the user from doing a task) you still are going to have vastly different interpretations of how “valuable“ that is. As evidence, look no further than any thread discussing high end Apple hardware on hacker news. For High end video editors a $20,000 workstation that allows them to edit and render commercial video faster is a No brainer, because it’s a drop in the bucket in terms of total expenses and saving time is critical, allowing faster turnaround time of edits, cuts, SFx, etc. for others not so much. For a saas example consider the superhuman email app which has a monthly subscription. For some people the value is clear and many times more than the cost. For others the fact that someone would pay for an email client every month seems insane. All because of Different interpretations of value