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POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.
I must say, your current attitude is a little bit sad and disappointing.
POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.
It's hard for me to fathom why people continue to pay for a service, whose founder time and time again shown that providing a good service is least of his priority. It took me four emails and two DMs just for him to acknowledge that there was a problem back in 2019. I understand virtue of simplicity, but how much can it hurt to just make the site responsive or just fix the fucking bookmarklet so it doesn't take multi…
I don't think most people factor the founder into their buying decisions at all
If you’re charging $1-2/month, you need thousands of paying customers to make it a worthwhile endeavor (vs just working for someone else).
With thousands of paid users, support requests are going to come in pretty much daily—-and you’ll be amazed how many people think you should be on-call 24/7 to provide support for them even if they’re only paying you $2!
Then the bad reviews start piling up, the codebase gets stale, competitors starting biting at your heels, your motivation wanes, etc.
The market developed the way it did for a reason. Google of the early 2000s wasn’t stupid. Consumers value their time at zero and don’t want to pay for anything, so they get invasive ads, trackers, and robot support.
Businesses value their time appropriately, so that’s why there’s still a robust paid B2B Saas market.
POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.
Anybox [1] is a great replacement if you are in the Apple ecosystem. Raindrop [2] is another alternative that a lot of people seem to enjoy. I tried many alternatives to Pinboard and like AnyBox best so far. [1] https://anybox.app/ [2] https://raindrop.io/
POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.
This isn't even slightly funny. I know several people who your neglectful ownership has caused a lot of trouble, on top of you ghosting them, and I've had to take to actively warning people away from Pinboard - even as you raise your prices with the promise of fixing Pinboard's rot. [NARRATOR: "He did not keep his promise."] If you are burntout and emotionally aversive to doing anything about it, well, it happens to…
POLL: Should I step down as head of Pinboard? I will abide by the results of this poll.
This isn't even slightly funny. I know several people who your neglectful ownership has caused a lot of trouble, on top of you ghosting them, and I've had to take to actively warning people away from Pinboard - even as you raise your prices with the promise of fixing Pinboard's rot. [NARRATOR: "He did not keep his promise."] If you are burntout and emotionally aversive to doing anything about it, well, it happens to…
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This isn't even slightly funny. I know several people who your neglectful ownership has caused a lot of trouble, on top of you ghosting them, and I've had to take to actively warning people away from Pinboard - even as you raise your prices with the promise of fixing Pinboard's rot. [NARRATOR: "He did not keep his promise."] If you are burntout and emotionally aversive to doing anything about it, well, it happens to…
Although you have to admit that we are in a timeline where "funny" has taken on a dramatically different meaning. And since some of the largest corps out there (Google) are not doing any better, I'd feel bad blaming the one single guy who's honestly trying.
The point here is that he's not honestly trying; he's neither of those words.
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Although you have to admit that we are in a timeline where "funny" has taken on a dramatically different meaning. And since some of the largest corps out there (Google) are not doing any better, I'd feel bad blaming the one single guy who's honestly trying.
> I'd feel bad blaming the one single guy who's honestly trying. The point here is that he's not honestly trying; he's neither of those words.