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I would be genuinely curious to know how many people do ssh based tricks instead of paying for a subscription. Is it really worth pushing away your initial tech

I would be genuinely curious to know how many people do ssh based tricks instead of paying for a subscription. Is it really worth pushing away your initial tech-savvy crowd for those couple of people that are not annoyed enough to leave?

jcelerier 5y ago
even with the free subscription I still access it over ssh aha
OJFord 5y ago
Surely it isn't, but it would hardly be the first time a company did something in that boneheaded vein.
- teekert 5y ago
  Yeah, that's for sure. I was once very happy with a Fintech app (a bank), very techy, an API, modern and cool features, tight community. Then they pivoted and started targetting another more mainstream crowd. They incorporated their insta-feed into the app, and all kinds of social and greenwashing features. Reviews are still poor. I keep wondering if they could not somehow have kept the techy, early adopters happy and started targeting a more mainstream crowd. Is that very difficult? Two versions of the app would have done it. But maybe the tech group is so small it's worth pissing off this small group- that jumps on new stuff eagerly and helps you debug and grow in an early stage. Quite depressing.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    Sounds a bit like Bunq :) It was the darling of the tech community but most of my friends have moved away already. I never used it.
    - teekert 5y ago
      Bunq indeed. I stopped my subscription, it was glorious for as long as it lasted.
dx034 5y ago
Often these decisions are much less evil. Some update in the future is likely to require work on the SSH functionality to keep it working and if not enough people use it, they might decide to kill that feature. Happened often enough that a "simplification" of the tech stack or refactoring ended up killing features that were valued by many, but didn't rank high enough in usage stats.

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I would be genuinely curious to know how many people do ssh based tricks instead of paying for a subscription. Is it really worth pushing away your initial tech

by teekert 5y ago

jcelerier 5y ago
even with the free subscription I still access it over ssh aha
OJFord 5y ago
Surely it isn't, but it would hardly be the first time a company did something in that boneheaded vein.
- teekert 5y ago
  Yeah, that's for sure. I was once very happy with a Fintech app (a bank), very techy, an API, modern and cool features, tight community. Then they pivoted and started targetting another more mainstream crowd. They incorporated their insta-feed into the app, and all kinds of social and greenwashing features. Reviews are still poor. I keep wondering if they could not somehow have kept the techy, early adopters happy and started targeting a more mainstream crowd. Is that very difficult? Two versions of the app would have done it. But maybe the tech group is so small it's worth pissing off this small group- that jumps on new stuff eagerly and helps you debug and grow in an early stage. Quite depressing.
  - GekkePrutser 5y ago
    Sounds a bit like Bunq :) It was the darling of the tech community but most of my friends have moved away already. I never used it.
    - teekert 5y ago
      Bunq indeed. I stopped my subscription, it was glorious for as long as it lasted.
dx034 5y ago
Often these decisions are much less evil. Some update in the future is likely to require work on the SSH functionality to keep it working and if not enough people use it, they might decide to kill that feature. Happened often enough that a "simplification" of the tech stack or refactoring ended up killing features that were valued by many, but didn't rank high enough in usage stats.