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> Patreon is a CRUD app and something you could build in a few months and consider it done if you wanted to. Yeah. EVERYBODY says that for EVERY single app or
by unity1001 4y ago
> Patreon is a CRUD app and something you could build in a few months and consider it done if you wanted to.
Yeah. EVERYBODY says that for EVERY single app or service that is posted on Hackernews. They could do it with even less people and funding. Yet, there doesn't seem to be anyone who actually did any such thing in a few months with 4-5 people.
Apparently, real world works differently.
- Nextgrid 4y ago> Yet, there doesn't seem to be anyone who actually did any such thing in a few months with 4-5 people. What about https://liberapay.com https://liberapay.com ? Also, keep in mind that once a well-funded player with infinite money to spend on marketing enters a market it's often no longer worthwhile for a bootstrapped player to compete even if it's possible on technical grounds.
- unity1001 4y agoI heard about it and I know enough about it to know that it is scarcely known. The problem is not making something that caters to a small group of users. The problem is doing it at scale.
- Nextgrid 4y agoI agree, it is scarcely known. However it does confirm that the technical problem of Patreon isn’t rocket science if it can be solved by volunteers on a very restricted budget. > The problem is doing it at scale. IMO that’s more down to support/operations than tech.
- unity1001 4y agoSubscription aggregation services already existed WAY Before Patreon. So the technical problem was never rocket science. The technical problem was, and still is, making it easy, safe, legal and scaling it to millions of users. Like every single technical problem in the tech startup world.