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Back when those were created, SaaS was the frontier!
Do Not Build SaaS
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#12I sympathize with these ideas - I love free software, self-hosted stuff, etc.
But how are we supposed to make money without proprietary software or SaaS? People always say "it's free as in freedom, not free as in zero price" but in practice, free software usually is free as in zero price. I guess you can work for a company that will pay you to write free software or be sponsored to write free software, but outside of that, it seems pretty difficult to monetize ethically pure software.
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#13The author forgets that people need to eat and only a small slice of deep tech ever becomes real. It seems to me that this is written from a place of privilege, where a FAANG job isn't true progress for your bloodline.
Strivers are amazing human beings. It's okay to be a striver that works at Google. It's okay to build logging tools. We'll need those things in the future, too.
We all learn our lessons in different orders and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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#14I sympathize with these ideas - I love free software, self-hosted stuff, etc. But how are we supposed to make money without proprietary software or SaaS? People always say "it's free as in freedom, not free as in zero price" but in practice, free software usually is free as in zero price. I guess you can work for a company that will pay you to write free software or be sponsored to write free software, but outside of…
This page is encouraging people to focus on building technologies that bridge the human-eco relationship, it makes no arguments about free software.
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Business and tech aren't the same thing, of course. Business was always that way, yes, and always will be.
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#16I don't think I'm the intended audience for this. I don't particularly want to build the foundations of tomorrow. I want to enjoy a comfortable life with my family. If I get to write some fun software along the way then that's cool too, but certainly a distant second place.
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#19People often build SaaS because of the business model.
If they're not interested in generating income, Open Source is typically the next stop.
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#20"Don't Build SaaS!" -- Created with Google Docs, including meta tags targeting Twitter, and loading Google Analytics.
The good ol’ “you hate capitalism but use an iPhone” response. It’s not a good one.