Live chat is something worse than a commodity. There’s no way to innovate or do anything interesting at all. AIM solved the chat channel perfectly and Skype completed voice chat.
Since then the game has been: use investor money to pay for servers and collect users, then sell them to some big company.
An actual profitable chat service, like, as a business, can’t exist I think. It is impossible to compete with free service provided for “free” (free as in barnyard animals don’t have to pay for their dinner).
Lest this come across as smug or whatever, I’m personally eating from the Discord trough. It is what it is.
Since then the game has been: use investor money to pay for servers and collect users, then sell them to some big company.
An actual profitable chat service, like, as a business, can’t exist I think. It is impossible to compete with free service provided for “free” (free as in barnyard animals don’t have to pay for their dinner).
Lest this come across as smug or whatever, I’m personally eating from the Discord trough. It is what it is.