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The reason: > Plus it can be demoralising to run a community project which also has a SaaS element. It is free for the community to use but it is costing you m
by namanyayg 2y ago
The reason:
> Plus it can be demoralising to run a community project which also has a SaaS element. It is free for the community to use but it is costing you money. Your premium tier does not have near enough paid subscribers to cover those costs. Then there are the mounting notifications a lot of which were - let’s face it, noise - making it hard for you to come up for air. If these elements were not enough, you wake up one morning and someone had decided to write a script to keep refreshing their BioDrop Profile page so they would appear in the “Most Popular Profiles” list, which effectively load tested the app and double our costs. And this was not an isolated incident.
I appreciate them rebelling against enshittification and keeping things free but I'm confused: if they wanted money, why didn't they focus on monetization?
- eddiejaoude 2y agoIt would have been better to comment on the original blog post so I could get notified rather than someone else telling me about this comment - we can all learn from different points of view. As you will see from the blog post, the project started as a community project with no thought of monetization. It was only after it took off and over 1 year since it was created that we decided to work on it fulltime and turn it into a SaaS.
- namanyayg 2y agoI use HN, I don't register on random comment systems to comment on blogs About your stance on monetization: I understand the sentiment and even respect such noble ideas Unfortunately, they are incompatible with capitalism. I had to learn this the hard way myself as well.
- eddiejaoude 2y agoThanks for replying. Can you share any more info or resources on your experience?