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Validation, often. Stars and installs make self-worth integer go up, etc. Greed, sometimes. Gotta get those usercounts high to get acquihired / to sell out / t
by altairprime 4mo ago
Validation, often. Stars and installs make self-worth integer go up, etc.
Greed, sometimes. Gotta get those usercounts high to get acquihired / to sell out / to flip on the paid subs for formerly free features.
I can’t remember the word for “prosocial through lowering cost to zero” is but sometimes that too.
- simonask 4mo agoThis works for a while. Then you - the programmer - grow up. Wise customers know this.
- saulpw 4mo agoBut a programmer is born every minute.
- altairprime 4mo agoNot so much these days.
- RetroTechie 4mo ago> I can’t remember the word for “prosocial through lowering cost to zero” is but sometimes that too. Wiktionary: Benevolent, altruistic, unselfish, beneficent, philanthropic, selfless
- altairprime 4mo agoPhilanthropic! Thanks.
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