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Re: What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

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Post by mmerlin » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 11:44 AM UTC

tuananh wrote: post #3

thomasedwards wrote: post #2

Previously on Lost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20294464 (link to his personal blog rather than Medium)

yuck, since when medium added paywall?

prepend outline.com to the url

https://outline.com/medium.com/dribbble/what-i-learned-co-fo...

Re: What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

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Post by AJRF » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 11:46 AM UTC

meerita wrote: post #6

I don't understand why people publish paid content. How the hell are we gonna read it. BTW, I've read the article and is not that worth subscribing medium.

Has there ever been a discussion on blocking Medium articles on HN? Almost every time a link is posted on HN a vast quantity of the comments are about how Medium sucks/is annoying.

Medium rots Google results and now it's bleeding into HN daily.

Re: What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

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Post by eli » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 1:15 PM UTC

meerita wrote: post #6

I don't understand why people publish paid content. How the hell are we gonna read it. BTW, I've read the article and is not that worth subscribing medium.

Do you prefer ads? Or you just don't think writers should get paid?

Re: What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

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Post by huhtenberg » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 1:29 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #13

meerita wrote: post #6

I don't understand why people publish paid content. How the hell are we gonna read it. BTW, I've read the article and is not that worth subscribing medium.

Do you prefer ads? Or you just don't think writers should get paid?

Are you suggesting that Dan wrote this article to make money?

Re: What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

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Post by meerita » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #13

meerita wrote: post #6

I don't understand why people publish paid content. How the hell are we gonna read it. BTW, I've read the article and is not that worth subscribing medium.

Do you prefer ads? Or you just don't think writers should get paid?

99% of Medium aren't dedicated writers, journalists.

Re: What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

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Post by anchpop » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 3:32 PM UTC

codeddesign wrote: post #10

gingeruser206 wrote: post #5

It’s for their paying subscribers. Welcome to monetization of content.

Welcome to a world without ads. Don’t like ads? Get use to paywalls.

This shouldn't get downvoted. If you don't like paywalls, and you don't like ads, what business model exactly should websites like medium follow?

Re: What I Learned Co-Founding Dribbble

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Post by aloknnikhil » Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 3:36 PM UTC

Most things are very generic and not any different from the million other blogs on "How to make your startup successful". This does not justify being behind a paywall.

But I don't fully agree with "Don’t take funding" as generic advice. I mean, sure, if you can afford not to, do so by all means. 90% of the founders don't have another choice. So, you will end up being dictated by the VC.