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How are you going to get your MRR if you don't have something for your customers to subscribe to?
by lkxijlewlf 5y ago
How are you going to get your MRR if you don't have something for your customers to subscribe to?
- wlesieutre 5y agoEasy, just make shitty devices that have to be replaced all the time! (please don't though)
- armagon 5y agoIt may be a place of simply changing your thinking and building a product that people want. I saw an article recently that claimed that there will be more repairable phones on the market soon, as France put in a law requiring a fixability score for products, and consumers responded by preferring fixable products. The Cricut smart cutters were changed to require a subscription to a cloud service, and consumers dumped 'em. The company finally walked the idea back. I'm interested in smart home products, but I don't like the devices randomly talking to a server somewhere. It's insane that your lightbulb talks to the internet. It's also a gamble wondering if I can reflash a specific device to use a known-safe firmware that only talks on my LAN. Similarly, if I were in the market for a smart cutter, I'm absolutely going to weight in the possibility of control of my device being taken from me and look at Cricut's competitors more favourably. I recently learned that domestic sewing machines were built before planned obsolescence was a thing; I can still buy a 1902 sewing machines in decent condition (for example), as they were designed to be repaired. Bad for a company's monthly income, I suppose, but good for me as a consumer.