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URI The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era
bruce511 wrote 9 hours 29 min ago:
In the article I read the passion of a user.
Unfortunately users don't pay the bills - customers do.
For VC funded startups, the VC is the customer. Thus the company
optimizes for customer satisfaction, not user satisfaction.
The cognitive dissonance necessary for users to believe they are
customers, while at the same time believing the product should be free
(or free adjacent) is impressive.
Clearly once customers no longer fund the company, the company closes.
And the free users will complain.
Paying for a product does not guarantee it will survive. But not paying
pretty much guarantees that the good times can't last forever. (Rejoice
if you see ads, then at least you're being monetized.)
Veen wrote 8 hours 40 min ago:
Why did they buy it in the first place, then?
bruce511 wrote 2 hours 29 min ago:
I have no idea why FF bought it. There are lots of reasons why
things get aquire, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.
That's somewhat irrelevant though. Clearly it couldn't survive
forever losing money.
robotnikman wrote 14 hours 42 min ago:
>Itâs easy to create value when you donât have values.
Damn that hit hard
chaosprint wrote 16 hours 50 min ago:
this is so sad...
I remember lots of very good creative art works are deployed there.
but it seems that people including myself are moving towards netlify
and cloudflare
monster_truck wrote 17 hours 56 min ago:
I'm starting to understand that most earnest users of glitch have no
idea the extent to which it enabled and was abused to do shitty things
-despite the commendable efforts of everyone there.
alwa wrote 14 hours 36 min ago:
Since sibling commenters askedâthe abuse mainly involved a heckuva
lot of phishing, last I heard; for example: [1] [2] Apparently the
free ephemeral apps were (1) free, (2) easy to make and easy to make
many of, and (3) hosted on infrastructure that targets tended to
trust.
URI [1]: https://threatpost.com/spear-phishing-exploits-glitch-steal-...
URI [2]: https://www.netskope.com/blog/glitch-hosted-phishing-uses-te...
nemomarx wrote 17 hours 43 min ago:
any good look at that side of it?
metalliqaz wrote 17 hours 45 min ago:
I'm out of the loop... what shitty things?
NBJack wrote 17 hours 26 min ago:
I'll do you one better: WTH is/was Glitch? I think I'm so far out
of the loop I've reached lagrange point 2.
absurdo wrote 17 hours 15 min ago:
How many cuils are we talking about?
hoseja wrote 6 hours 16 min ago:
I would like to report an instance of heavy Baader-Meinhof as
just yesterday I randomly wondered how many cuils are actually
genuinely achievable in simple text and it's two at most IMO.
Macha wrote 17 hours 16 min ago:
Low code tool plus hosting platform, and also the final form of
Fog Creek which you may have heard about from Joel on Software
blog posts if you read tech blogs 15 years ago
pvg wrote 18 hours 9 min ago:
Recent thread
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064230
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