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Startups are often all about disrupting an industry by lowering the cost of a product. If you can lower it to zero that demonstrates the incumbent businesses ar
by onion2k 3y ago
Startups are often all about disrupting an industry by lowering the cost of a product. If you can lower it to zero that demonstrates the incumbent businesses are obviously not providing a valuable service that's worth paying for.
- flakeoil 3y agoYour comment does not make sense. If someone offers a service for free and people start to use it does not mean that the old incumbent service which costs money is not providing value. It shows both provide value as people were using both. It just shows that people prefer free over paid for the same service. The new entrant maybe has lower internal costs or subsidises the price initially, but it does not mean that one provides more value than the other. In the Bruno case, it sounds nice with open-source, free for the basic features etc, but it's not much different than any other freemium offering. They will also try to make money on premium features and other related tools. Their own development time will be spent on those features and they will outsource a lot of the development of the base tool on the open source community.