Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
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Re: Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
#2Y Combinator company, ladies and gentlemen.
Re: Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
#3Y Combinator company, ladies and gentlemen.
The company in question:
Re: Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
#4The problem with VC-backed startups, is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
And then you desperately need to find ways to monetize your product, hence the enshitification.
Re: Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
#5Create the problem.
Sell the solution.
Enshitificaytion, at it's finest.
(Yes, I shitted a misspelling for a more pronounced enunciation.)
Re: Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
#6The site in question seems unusable if you visit it on mobile (iPhone/Safari):
It could at least show a “designed for desktop use only” message or something.
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#7.
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#8.
run ads, ask for donations, include genuinely premium features for a fee? anything other than restricting basic functionality.
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#9Or you could spend 5 minutes in TamperMonkey and replace the button with a working one. 10 minutes if you want to hide the other upselling interface elements.
I pretty often make little fixes to websites I use. It's quite satisfying.
Re: Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
#10Software is weird because it is expected that should be free (as in beer) for most consumers while while being for profit and giving high salaries to its workers. I struggle to think of any other privately owned sector of the economy that works that way.