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>It’s easy to create value when you don’t have values.

Damn that hit hard

Recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064230

I'm starting to understand that most earnest users of glitch have no idea the extent to which it enabled and was abused to do shitty things -despite the commendable efforts of everyone there.

In the article I read the passion of a user.

Unfortunately users don't pay the bills - customers do.

For VC funded startups, the VC is the customer. Thus the company optimizes for customer satisfaction, not user satisfaction.

The cognitive dissonance necessary for users to believe they are customers, while at the same time believing the product should be free (or free adjacent) is impressive.

Clearly once customers no longer fund the company, the company closes. And the free users will complain.

Paying for a product does not guarantee it will survive. But not paying pretty much guarantees that the good times can't last forever. (Rejoice if you see ads, then at least you're being monetized.)

Sad to see Glitch go, but there wasn't a _business_ there. I had a bunch of cool static HTML/JS tools there, but never gave them a penny. It couldn't go on forever. So long and thanks for all the fish!

I moved my tools to a repo and Github Pages. Slower iteration speed obviously (~1 minutes from pushing code to showing up on Pages), but it is working well for me. I can edit locally or directly in the repo on github.com (pressing `.` in a repo opens it in a full online VS Code) from anywhere.

https://pseudosavant.github.io/ps-web-tools/

this is so sad... I remember lots of very good creative art works are deployed there. but it seems that people including myself are moving towards netlify and cloudflare