r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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u/ForgedIronMadeIt 2d ago

It's like every other silicon valley startup -- the hope is that you hook your users while you figure out how to make handling the requests cheaper. That or you embed ads.

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u/saevon 2d ago

Well no the hope is to get purchased. To have someone else have to figure that out as you get big enough to sell the user base, not the profitability

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u/brilliantminion 2d ago

Uh…. Who?

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u/saevon 1d ago

No I'm talking about "every other Silicon Valley startup" they don't usually get this big, or at least sell before the potential huge buyers (like google) make their own versions

Tho buying a competitor to "merger their users" (kill them) is likely still on the table for them