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Was happy to see this wasn’t some rant about people not wanting to spend the price of a cup of coffee on your app. Instead it’s an exploration of the marginal
by wodenokoto 5y ago
Was happy to see this wasn’t some rant about people not wanting to spend the price of a cup of coffee on your app.
Instead it’s an exploration of the marginal cost of software and how that impacts the creators business.
> The digital nature of software makes it extremely easy to ignore pesky distractions like customers right up until the moment you need their money to buy that expensive Icelandic yogurt you love.
This quote comes right after a paragraph about how the closest thing to the near zero marginal cost of software is the publishing business.
I think that book authors are in a similar position. Spend a year or two writing a novel with almost no idea If people wants to read it.