(June 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Who cares if a lot of people are using something you created if you're not making any money?????
To quote Justin Timberlake (pretending to be Sean Parker)
"You don't even know what the thing is yet. How big it can get, how far it can go. This is no time to take your chips down. A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? A billion dollars."
It might not make money straight away but it's money in the bank if it attracts a shit load of people to use it and make them come to depend on it.
Quote:I use the free software Irfanview all the time. I don't know who designed it and I don't give a shit. Notoriety only means something if people actually know who you are, and since most of the world doesn't give a shit about programmers - go for the money. I'd rather make $50,000 from 2000 customers than $0 from 5,000,000 customers ....... customers who couldn't give a shit about who I am or what I've done.
I don't really think people care about Mark Zuckerberg. He ain't rich because of his own popularity, he is rich because of his creation.
I think the same can be said for Hypercube. If it's a great product and something people will use all the time, then you want to maximise that potential. Making people pay from the offset is no way to maximise that.
