Agreed, good chunks of the "web development startup scene" seem rather bubbly. The entire "get a bunch of users and worry about making money later" mindset see

Agreed, good chunks of the "web development startup scene" seem rather bubbly. The entire "get a bunch of users and worry about making money later" mindset seems somewhat broken. Let's see what happens if all major browsers come with ad-blockers preinstalled overnight or more importantly if people/governments? start taking privacy more seriously. What happened to the good old bootstrapping mindset that used to be the go to philosophy in IT. Seems like it got replaced by a cracklike addiction for VC-money-shots.