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Good comments. A few thoughts... We only kickoff building one app a month. 1.Community will be attracted / restricted by the platform. We agree and realize h
by bitsweet 13y ago
Good comments. A few thoughts...
We only kickoff building one app a month.
1.Community will be attracted / restricted by the platform.
We agree and realize helping the community grow as a core responsibility of assembly.
2. There is too much fatigue out there, as there are so many such "ideas" competing for mind-space.
We've thought a lot about this too. These are just of few of the initial app ideas we received. We curate all the new ideas that come in and work with the submitters on the promising ones before putting them up.
3. SAAS based products for small businesses, freelancers has become a kind of a cottage industry with limited scalability. I am doubtful how much revenue this can generate.
I believe some the current app ideas are attacking larger opportunities, for example support-foo.. its proprietary competition would be a Zendesk. "Zendesk’s fiscal 2012 revenue will be approximately $30 million"[1]
[1] http://www.pehub.com/2012/11/29/zendesk-ready-2013-ipo-sources/ http://www.pehub.com/2012/11/29/zendesk-ready-2013-ipo-sourc...
- alttab 13y ago1. this is a big responsiblity. Are you really signed up for this? 2. You curate the ideas? Doesn't sound very open to me. What about voting? How can you make this more democratic? 3. I'm not convinced these projects could gain traction against a dedicated team of people lead by experienced people in the industry, paid a full time salary, with the sole purpose of making a profit. I would imagine that the open-source "everyone gets paid" thing is where this idea will fall flat on its face. Not sure it will get there though, because this process has to produce an app that generates revenue above operating costs first.