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Unfortunately you acquire users by building what they actually want, not what they should want.
by philosopher1234 5y ago
Unfortunately you acquire users by building what they actually want, not what they should want.
- ramijames 5y agoThis is true and wise.
- haswell 5y agoThis is not incompatible with what the parent comment is talking about. People want easy / seamless access to the services they use. If Web3 can find a way to provide that or improve upon the current hellscape of email based logins mixed with federated social logins mixed with the pain of maintaining 100 different accounts, it might just find a place. But the people working on this need to focus on the user’s end goals and UX needs, and not just declare the problem solved once a solution is technically working.
- marcus_holmes 5y ago> People want easy / seamless access to the services they use. Free. People want it for free. Not free as in speech, but free as in beer. History has shown that the vast majority of people will trade their entire personal data set if they can get fake internet points for free.
- ramijames 5y agoABSOLUTELY. Accounts and transactions are free on our network. We think eventually all networks will have to go this route. Paying per-transaction is mind-bogglingly anti-user.
- haswell 5y agoSure, people want things for free, but that is orthogonal to the simplicity angle. Something can be free, but won’t see use if it sucks badly. People spend $$$ on Apple products because of the “just works” reputation. I’m not saying people want to pay for services, but I think it’s important to distinguish UX vs. cost when examining what motivates people.