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- What’s most impressive is that Netflix has increased prices many times in the last decade, on the order of ~10% each time, with little evidence of increased churn.
from Firehose #182: 💰 Subscription addiction. 💰 by Alex Taussig
- Digital art can also transcend the static possibilities afforded to physical art, and create and discover entirely new art forms, such as generative art, which is art made with the aid of computer algorithms or even AI neural networks and other technological innovations entirely impossible in the real world.
from NFTs 101 — Why NFTs Are a Generational Innovation by Ben Yu
A lot of great ideas, attacking real problems that customers acknowledge and seek solutions for, are in areas where budgets don’t exist, or not often, or are so small that it requires an enormous number of customers to make money (often also in a crowded competitive space), and therefore the company fails.
from A Smart Bear » Excuse me, is there a problem? by longform.asmartbear.com
Google have already found it difficult to keep their advantages protected from competitors such as OpenAI, and now that the wider research community are collaborating in the open they’re going to find it even harder
from Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” by Simon Willison
- “Amazon is designed to commoditize products to the lowest common denominator of what they stand for,” Joey Zwillinger, Allbirds’s co-founder
from Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (Published 2020) by Yiren Lu
- Focus. API-first companies focus on solving a very specific problem. Stripe started with payments, and put all of their efforts into building the best payments solution. Twilio started with messaging and calling. Plaid does bank data, Algolia does search, Shippo does shipping, Checkr does background checks. That focus means that everything the comp... See more
from APIs All the Way Down by Packy McCormick
- Creator labor entails the same job and income insecurity as gig work. In the gig work world, clients can end contracts at any time, and providers can be swapped out easily. The same can be said for creators: if users are not satisfied with the content or offering, another creator is just a swipe away. Underscoring this job insecurity is a black-box... See more
from The Creator Economy Is in Crisis. Now Let’s Fix it. by Li Jin
- Design for emergence is permissionless. It empowers people by way of its constitution even though it can never know what people will do with that power. In contrast to user-centered design, design for emergence invites the user into the design process not only as a subject of study, but as a collaborator with agency and control.
from When to Design for Emergence by Kasey Klimes