I agree, but it's a real bummer - my wife and I have used Buxfer for a couple years now, and now I'm wondering whether I should be scrambling to find another service because I don't want to lose two years worth of data should they decide to stop paying for their servers tomorrow.
Somewhat tangentially, as I get older, I find myself getting a little more cynical about paying for services from startup companies for fear of exactly this scenario - the fabulous hackers who start it find a shinier coin. How did you overcome this when you were selling Viaweb to your first few customers? Or were you dealing with mom and pop shops that were small enough not to care?
(BTW, my comments aren't directed at the Buxfer guys - as you mentioned, this would be a wildly unfair description of two guys who have kept alive a pretty damn usable zombie service.)
Somewhat tangentially, as I get older, I find myself getting a little more cynical about paying for services from startup companies for fear of exactly this scenario - the fabulous hackers who start it find a shinier coin. How did you overcome this when you were selling Viaweb to your first few customers? Or were you dealing with mom and pop shops that were small enough not to care?
(BTW, my comments aren't directed at the Buxfer guys - as you mentioned, this would be a wildly unfair description of two guys who have kept alive a pretty damn usable zombie service.)