Oddbean new post about login | logout 💯 Always survey the users, regularly gather feedback, and take action on it. Just because the devs think it's cool doesn't mean people actually want it or will use it or find it worth paying for.
Hear me out. Influencers get people to donate to some “charity”. People those influencers know make shitty projects. That “charity” gives them grants and does not disclose the amount. Sounds good?
We can call it opengrants!
Let’s also emphasize it is Bitcoin related just in case
Even better if said charity can also shill their own products.
The difference between what a dev thinks is cool and what a user thinks is cool is... a GUI. And simplicity.
It's a difference in priorities. Dev wants to come up with some cool new thing every day, so that his buddies cheer him on, but the user can't get the GUI to allow them to login or see the entries in their thread, or their feed is boring as heck, so they just give up and walk off. Lots of cool projects die because they refuse to follow-through cleanly on anything and just get stuck in Perpetual Prototype Purgatory.
> Perpetual Prototype Purgatory Haha damn, that sets the vibe alright 😳
at some point they'll get hit by reality that what they think is cool will not pay their bills. Until they understand the marketability — supply vs demand then their work will go to trash.