Two of your examples are tightly correlated to some other articles of mine.
The Google Drive example — I said this:
"If you’re in a monopolistic environment and you’re successful, others will come. You can start building the experience right now in order to widen the gap between the next newcomer and you."
Dropbox was in a monopolistic environment, you called it as well saying it was novel. In the meantime, GD came and ate them. Instead of "staying there doing nothing and asking for money", they had time to widen the gap between them and others.
Where are they nowadays? They're doing good but they had to remarket themselves towards artists and creatives. I'm not sure where they would have been today had it not been for Apple, Amazon and Google coming up but that's the situation.
> 5) Patreon. I'm pretty sure I dislike everything about them - but they do provide a very easy/universal way to send a single dollar a month to somebody I admire. I pretty much loathe the politics associated (I'm a defend free-speech even though I detest it) sort of a person. BUT no better option yet (wanky youtube $5 a month for an icon in chat, is not what I'm looking for).
I've only briefly read about the controversies with them and I know Jordan Peterson is looking to create his own Patreon-like platform. Which leads to my (so far two-part) posts around "Don't hold your user hostages"
In this case, Patreon holds their users hostages — just like you said, you dislike everything about them but it's the only far ———— so far. As a consequence of the controversy (i.e. we, Patreon, do this), at least one more platform will come out. And the guy has some following.
The Google Drive example — I said this:
"If you’re in a monopolistic environment and you’re successful, others will come. You can start building the experience right now in order to widen the gap between the next newcomer and you."
https://chagency.co.uk/blog/experiences/what-makes-or-breaks...
Dropbox was in a monopolistic environment, you called it as well saying it was novel. In the meantime, GD came and ate them. Instead of "staying there doing nothing and asking for money", they had time to widen the gap between them and others.
Where are they nowadays? They're doing good but they had to remarket themselves towards artists and creatives. I'm not sure where they would have been today had it not been for Apple, Amazon and Google coming up but that's the situation.
> 5) Patreon. I'm pretty sure I dislike everything about them - but they do provide a very easy/universal way to send a single dollar a month to somebody I admire. I pretty much loathe the politics associated (I'm a defend free-speech even though I detest it) sort of a person. BUT no better option yet (wanky youtube $5 a month for an icon in chat, is not what I'm looking for).
I've only briefly read about the controversies with them and I know Jordan Peterson is looking to create his own Patreon-like platform. Which leads to my (so far two-part) posts around "Don't hold your user hostages"
https://chagency.co.uk/blog/increasing-user-retention/dont-t...
In this case, Patreon holds their users hostages — just like you said, you dislike everything about them but it's the only far ———— so far. As a consequence of the controversy (i.e. we, Patreon, do this), at least one more platform will come out. And the guy has some following.
Thx for the comment!