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How many people who are capable of writing a viable app but can't afford $20/month or less also lack friends who would give them some server space? I'm serious
by easp 17y ago
How many people who are capable of writing a viable app but can't afford $20/month or less also lack friends who would give them some server space?
I'm serious about this. If someone is so painfully shy or otherwise socially incompetent that they know no one who would give them an account then how are are they going to deal with cultivating customers or buyers?
If their issue is that they just don't have the right friends, then I'd think the right answer is to start cultivating geeky & entrepreneurial friends for the sake of just connecting with some like minded people. Helping facilitate that sort of thing sounds like a fine thing to experiment with, being able to offer them some free server space would just be gravy.
- jacquesm 17y agoGood points. I think that the answer to the first question is probably almost everybody in the third world for starters, and probably a fair number of people in the former eastblock countries, especially students. In the 'developed' world probably fewer but it would not surprise me if there are thousands of people in a situation where a free server would just give them the leg up they need to get to 'ramen profitable'.