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Like OP, I think now that we see enshittifcation happening all over the place, there is also a growing market of people who are willing to pay for something of
by myaccountonhn 1y ago
Like OP, I think now that we see enshittifcation happening all over the place, there is also a growing market of people who are willing to pay for something of high quality that won't be enshittified. Kagi is actually good example: who would've paid for a search engine 10 years ago?
Personally, I try more than ever to give my money to privately owned non-vc funded companies or open-source projects. I avoid big publicly traded tech companies as much as possible, because I've lived to see how modern business models + the constant need for growth plays out, and I'm done with it.
- Workaccount2 1y agoThe problem is that people like yourself don't even register on the radar. Nebula for example is the choice answer to the enshitification of YouTube. Lots of the top creators push it to billions of viewers. Pretty much everyone who does the YouTube rounds knows about it. Yet they only have ~750,000 subscriptions. That is an awful conversion rate, and why these creators will be stuck making ad supported yt content for the foreseeable future. People overwhelming do not want to pay directly.
- myaccountonhn 1y agoI think people like me do register on the radar, see platforms like substack, kagi, bandcamp or patreon to mention a few. Linux is more popular than ever and keeps slowly growing. It won't happen overnight, but there are now viable businesses out there with non-ad business models. Yes they're not as large as Google, but I don't think they need to be either.
- leakycap 1y ago3/4 million paying users for Nebula seems like a success story. No one expects a service with niche educational-type information to take off like a free hot video game.