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Power users can power websites, so long as the website's value isn't (too) dependent on the number of users it has. For example, Dropbox's power users essential
by tg3 13y ago
Power users can power websites, so long as the website's value isn't (too) dependent on the number of users it has. For example, Dropbox's power users essentially subsidize everyone else's usage.
That model may have worked for Google Reader as well. Social networks have a harder time, because anything that reduces interaction in the network reduces the value for everyone.
- s3r3nity 13y agoInteresting point, though I'm still convinced that Dropbox is the exception rather than the rule -- being a >90% margin business means you can take a risk like this and it's not really a "risk", whereas a search engine, news site, Youtube, etc. would not