Jack Ellis: why pay $15/month for your software?
Jack Ellis asked why anyone would pay $15 a month for software they could plan, build, host and patch themselves. It is the week's "software is dead" argument with a price tag attached.
Real money
Jack Ellis asks why he would pay $15 a month for your software
Jack Ellis posed the question founders selling small subscriptions least want to hear: why pay $15 a month when you can plan, build, review, host, launch, scale, secure, patch, monitor and debug it yourself? He gave no example and no numbers, just the list of everything a buyer would now be taking on.
Why would I pay $15/month for your software when I can plan, build, review, improve, host, launch, scale, secure, patch, monitor and debug it myself?
Stolen playbooks
levelsio got Windows XP running inside a tweet
levelsio ran a Windows XP emulator inside an X post, playable by tapping it, and followed up to say it works. You drag the mouse to move it because X Player does not allow pointer lock, and it is desktop only for now. He calls it a non-commercial preservation project under his computer museum.
What changed under us
Isenberg says every app built around humans clicking gets rethought
Greg Isenberg argued we have not processed the size of the shift: every app, job and business designed around a human doing the clicking is about to be rebuilt. His framing is that for 40 years computers were cars we had to drive, and now they are chauffeurs. No products, numbers or examples came with it.