> This is the equivalent of telling people “why are you working at a job, why don’t you work on hobby projects instead”
This is literally what people do sometimes. I released two decently successful freemium apps and get regularly one-liners in reviews and e-mails like this:
- 3/5* Good app! Please make it free.
- 1/5* Bad app! Feature XYZ costs money and I won't buy PRO [~4USD] just for it.
- 1/5* Make it fully free and I will give you 5 stars!
- Please send me your source code.
HN posts and comments aren't that impudent but it's unfortunately often the same lack of perspective. You'll read here walls of text about how the web nowadays sucks because of ads and tracking without any consideration of the fact that publishers rely on this form of monetization. The most popular "solution" here is just blocking ads via pi-hole etc. and creates a good example for the tragedy of the commons[1]. It becomes an arms race between ad-blockers and ad-providers and makes everything even worse. This makes the appeal to stop using medium even more ironic. Medium is at least trying to create a sustainable online publishing platform that doesn't need classical online ads to survive.
This is literally what people do sometimes. I released two decently successful freemium apps and get regularly one-liners in reviews and e-mails like this:
- 3/5* Good app! Please make it free.
- 1/5* Bad app! Feature XYZ costs money and I won't buy PRO [~4USD] just for it.
- 1/5* Make it fully free and I will give you 5 stars!
- Please send me your source code.
HN posts and comments aren't that impudent but it's unfortunately often the same lack of perspective. You'll read here walls of text about how the web nowadays sucks because of ads and tracking without any consideration of the fact that publishers rely on this form of monetization. The most popular "solution" here is just blocking ads via pi-hole etc. and creates a good example for the tragedy of the commons[1]. It becomes an arms race between ad-blockers and ad-providers and makes everything even worse. This makes the appeal to stop using medium even more ironic. Medium is at least trying to create a sustainable online publishing platform that doesn't need classical online ads to survive.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons