Pedro PiñeraApr 10

Not quite the same, but I’ve been observing other businesses in @tuist space and their models, and the way they are run gave me this sad feeling of the people behind them not really caring about the problem space. It’s purely about maximising value extraction as any cost to approach an exit or going public.

And this lack of care percolates to the extreme where they even publish case studies of customers they don’t have.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-passive-income-trap-ate-a-generation-of-entrepreneurs/

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found them on Alibaba for $1.20

Westenberg.
Show threadobrhoffApr 10

@pedro It’s unfortunate, also a big thing in the indie space too.

The space got taken over by people that only talk about MRR, paywalls and SEO. I often don’t even know what their product is.

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@obrhoff I had no idea it was a thing in the indie aoace too. To be honest, I never understood so much hype around paywall design. It always felt to me like trying to figure out how to “hack” the person into paying. Shouldn’t that be the response to a great product that the person loves?
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Show threadobrhoffApr 10

@pedro I really don’t know.

Sometimes I think I'm too naive to believe that it only takes a good product to succeed.

But yeah, it became often an eye-ball game to grab the attention and show a paywall as much as possible in the hope the user falls for the $4.99 per week subscription.