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Is there not always some sort "marketplace" where people see what's being offered one way or another? I don't think we need ads for discovery, I see it more as
by barbazoo 10mo ago
Is there not always some sort "marketplace" where people see what's being offered one way or another?
I don't think we need ads for discovery, I see it more as a nefarious way to occupy space in people's conscious.
- pixl97 10mo ago>Is there not always some sort "marketplace" How exactly does that work for virtual products?
- cramsession 10mo agoIf they provide value, people will seek them out.
- taffer 10mo agoHow? If you don't advertise, no one can see you.
- tcfhgj 10mo agoJust one counter example: gh.de
- taffer 9mo agoNot really a counter example: gh.de is a pure advertising platform.
- cramsession 10mo agoIf I need something, I’ll find it.
- barbazoo 10mo agoHow did people that had something to sell do it before advertising? The problem again is greed. The organic way is too inefficient so advertising needs to come in and make people rich instead of letting the product do the convincing naturally, word of mouth and so on.
- taffer 9mo agoAdvertising is as old as humanity itself. Asking what people did before advertising doesn't make sense. Also, word-of-mouth advertising is, as the name suggests, a form of advertising.
- barbazoo 10mo agoNot that I ever use it but there are apparently services like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Hunt people use to seek out new products. But as sibling comment said, if it's really good, people will find it eventually.
- satvikpendem 10mo agoFunny you mention Product Hunt because it's pay-to-play too, there was a whole controversy a decade ago exactly now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739875
- TeMPOraL 10mo agoCatalogs - offline and on-line, commercial and government. Deprived of constant noise and overstimulation of advertising, people will actively seek such information out, whether because they have a problem to solve, or just out of curiosity. All we're talking about here is switching from current "push" model of advertising back to "pull" model. Who here never browsed a product or company catalog they found, just because they were curious?
- barbazoo 10mo agoI can almost feel the calm just imagining the world you're describing.