The crappy part about VC-backed fiat businesses is that they always try to squeeze you for every penny once they've grown by offering near-free services to giant market share.

It's always the same story:

1. Get funded

2. Offer service for free or near free to capture market share

3. Introduce higher pricing

4. Tighten up previously free functions to now cost money

5. Introduce teams, spaces etc... all the garbage they need to extra even more money from you

6. Laugh on their way to the bank

The same old story over and over. It's tiring to witness and annoying to work within considering how much time you end up investing in these products.

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Would be cool if there was one where you could pay an up front fee and use it forever and export it where you want.

yeah! I wouldn't mind paying a support fee, but stop trying to slowly bleed me lol

Exactly! Unfortunately this is how many services are nowadays.

Are you going to have a live designer stream again soon? Would love to watch.

my internet connection seems not suitable for streaming. been having a lot of issues with it on zapstream

Oh, that sucks.

There’s always the other option. Start something yourself, get bought out by an buy, invest and grow company run by mba’s who sound like they know what they’re doing and get left wondering if there’s any knowledge imparted in a Harvard mba. Too much fiat plus bullshit merchants is getting really dull

it's all based around needing to continually improve profits for the benefits of investors. what is the solution to fundraising that doesn't involve a monetary return to those that invested money to get the company off the ground?

We will see more startups doing self funding and earn money the traditional way. One time pay for a piece of software.

starting to like that model better. pay once, upgrade if there are significant upgrades and if you wish to have them

What does the future of innovation financing look like on the #bitcoin standard?

More akin to benefactors in the renaissance I reckon