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Stack Overflow founder Joel Spolsky on why you should make your product free After the dot com crash, Joel read a blog post by Ev Williams titled “The End of Free.” As Joel explains, the blog post argued that software was no longer going to be free: “He was...

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Startup Archive1 год назад

Watch the full @twistartups interview with Joel Spolsky here:

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Logic dictates that something—or someone—always had to exist. Assume it was a “someone,” not a “something.” Why would such a being create a world like ours, one filled with pain? The Advent of Time provides a definitive answer.

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Rethynk AI1 год назад

Joel Spolsky’s insights highlight the strategic power of the freemium model—build massive user adoption through free access and monetize the high-value users who can’t live without the product. This approach not only democratizes access but also creates a self-sustaining business model. By making Copilot free, he could have built a broader user base, eventually targeting enterprise-level customers with premium features.

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Nuno Afonso1 год назад

That is all great in theory, but it also misses how many of these products are created that: - Focus on purely getting huge not paying customer base - Uses that customer base to look for a buyer for a ridiculous amount of money - New owner tries to figure out how to monetize which starts breaking the product - Product is shutdown and users get left stranded

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Go, See, Do Awesome1 год назад

"The End Of Free" blog lost its domain (c.2006) but the blog posts including of Ev Williams can still be found here on blogspot and on the WaybackMachine. Enjoy.

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Startup Archive1 год назад

Great find -- thank you!

Фото профиля Newtonian
Newtonian1 год назад

@Jason Great point

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Kenan Ahmed1 год назад

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Thread Reader App1 год назад

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Фото профиля JB | Azoth Labs 🧪
JB | Azoth Labs 🧪1 год назад

@Jason Making products free can really attract users and build a community—smart move after that crash. What do you think?

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dank

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AboutEnhypen

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FNC Boaster: “These events are, as you can probably imagine, quite tiring. We go from the upper bracket into three games in a row for the final days. That, on top of lots of media, lots of features, lots of just random stuff that we do. Not to mention the fact that when we go into our games, there’s a lot of adrenaline. After every game, my body aches and my head hurts, and then we have to somehow get to sleep, and then we’ve got to wake up early and stuff. So there’s loads of factors into this. It’s not just simply, you go in and you play. And I think we started slow today, especially on Corrode and Lotus. A big map was Lotus for us, and we weren’t able to, just everything wasn’t going our way. The Odin was completely annihilating us. Then when we got to Abyss, we were like, ‘This is the last chance.’ And I felt very confident that we could win this one, because I felt like I knew everything they did on the attack side. And then, what were we like 1–11 down or something? I was like, ‘Oh bloody hell, this one’s going to be a tough one, isn’t it?’ We managed to do it, and then I was like, ‘Holy guacamole, the dream is alive!’ And it felt amazing, hearing the crowd and being able to just do that, because it would’ve been so disappointing of a final to just bomb out there. But in the FNATIC way, we fight back. Ascent, we’re starting to feel the kind of momentum. And then it gets to Sunset, a map that was the one kind of perma-ban we had, but we had some stuff on it. Unfortunately, it was just the crucial map for us to get the win, and some of the rounds just didn’t go our way, and that’s how VALORANT goes, you know. It felt like the rounds that we needed to win, we lost, and then they had an ultimate the next round, and that’s how brutal it is on defense. If we had just been able to win one of those rounds, like the bonus round, holy guacamole, we would’ve been loving life. And it was the difference of like a 1v1 in the end. So yeah, I mean, we tried our best. That’s why I’m not that [sad]. I am sad, obviously, but I’m not like how I was in Toronto, because I felt like we pushed, we tried our best, and I’m very happy with the boys. It would’ve been nice to win, but there’s only one winner, so it’s just a blessing to compete instead.” #VALORANTChampions via Pedro Romero

VALO2ASIA

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