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The author touches on being embarrassed. As a game developer making games that many players would call evil (IAPs, IAPs everywhere.), I tend to prefix my "what do you do?" with "Oh uh, it's not something I'd actually play, but it's called ...". Shame, really.
What is "IAP"?
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[yes] [no] [purchase]I consider this post part of a nascent trend to de-bullshit the startup and technology scene. For years the narrative has been "we in the tech industry are standard bearers leading society into a bright new tomorrow." The recent protests around the Google buses, as well as John Oliver's takedown [1] of the tech industry seem to be striking a chord with the public, and there's a lesson to be drawn: we tech folks are n…
It's one of those things you (well I at least :) learn when you get older; you have a few years to do what you came here for and then you expire, so feeling embarrassed or otherwise caring about the negative things people might think about you is not very interesting and should best be not at all even in your brain at any time. Took me about 34 years to learn that and it's not actual advise you can give someone as pe…
Is your attitude toward bragging about income culturally typical for Dutch people?
The author touches on being embarrassed. As a game developer making games that many players would call evil (IAPs, IAPs everywhere.), I tend to prefix my "what do you do?" with "Oh uh, it's not something I'd actually play, but it's called ...". Shame, really.
There was a great comment recently about "social" game developers being like heroin dealers who don't use their own product and look down on their customers, and "traditional" game developers being like cannabis dealers who are happy to smoke it with the customer.
As a developer I put up as much resistance as possible when it feels absolutely ridiculous - when design becomes more about tricking people into accidentally doing things they didn't want to do. At one point we made the flow for connecting to Facebook pretty ambiguous, where "Skip" meant yes and "Continue" meant no. Eventually that got voted out...
I do often feel a bit conflicted, but to be honest, I don't think we're the worst within our competition (Dungeon Keeper takes that crown, now). I've been playing on our production server since launch with no cheating, and no spending, and I'm doing just fine, and get enough minutes of play time for free to keep me satisfied.
The flip side from the rage we see on things like Reddit, we do receive far more messages and comments about how much people enjoy our game than those who don't. And if people are spending money, they must actually like it, right?
> For some reason, I bought into this premium that our > community puts on companies that produce gimmicky > technology and raise massive rounds without having any > real revenue streams. I got so caught up in this > mentality that I was literally embarrassed to be working > on a company that was making money in a less than sexy > industry. Anyone who is looking to take VC money needs to be able to convince investors…
It's one of those things you (well I at least :) learn when you get older; you have a few years to do what you came here for and then you expire, so feeling embarrassed or otherwise caring about the negative things people might think about you is not very interesting and should best be not at all even in your brain at any time. Took me about 34 years to learn that and it's not actual advise you can give someone as pe…
Is your attitude toward bragging about income culturally typical for Dutch people?
I consider this post part of a nascent trend to de-bullshit the startup and technology scene. For years the narrative has been "we in the tech industry are standard bearers leading society into a bright new tomorrow." The recent protests around the Google buses, as well as John Oliver's takedown [1] of the tech industry seem to be striking a chord with the public, and there's a lesson to be drawn: we tech folks are n…
A business can be a service, where I or someone I employ can fulfil a specific need using a set of skills.
A business can be in renting, where I can rent an object for a pre-determined amount of time for a fixed cost at regular intervals over a certain time period.
There are many more ways to fulfil specific needs and these can be and often are combined in several ways. For example, offers of travel insurance and such during the check out process of purchasing a plane ticket.
LawnStart could even offer a range of lawn/garden care products to his customers, if they are so inclined on top of his general service, such as products which improve the growth/health of lawns which may need to be applied more regularly than Steve is able. Of course, this is only to illustrate combination of service and product (I think the people paying him to care for their lawns means they wouldn't be so interested in lawn care products).
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Don't you? I've got a list of things that I think could be improved. For instance: The interface of the remote control? Could be improved for elderly. The price of a CNC router? Could be cheaper. The atmosphere of that bar? Could be nicer. Easy to say, hard to do.
Same here. I want to make a battery powered noise canceling headphone that automatically shuts off if the jack isn't plugged in. Why should a 250 dollar pair of headphones not do this automatically when the battery is required for the experience!?
Seriously though, if I go in a server room I'm putting noise canceling on. I still need to hear if someone is talking to me, so no music unless I'm doing repetitive work.