Re:Imzy is shutting down
by m3rc on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:57PM
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Hmm that's a pretty ephemeral "asset"... and it's an asset that is directly tied to your ability to pull funding. Even if you technically don't directly mold the community, it doesn't do you any favors to try and think of something else as your "product" just because you're uncomfortable with the definition.
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I never said anything about what their product is. I said their users aren't a "product", they are an "asset".
Value doesn't come only in the form of software. Only software devs believe that.
I definitely didn't claim that value only came in the form of software... in fact I think I claimed the opposite of that in saying that reddit calling their platform their product was useless and unhelpful. They have one thing that is attractive to users, advertisers, investors, and creators. That thing is their community. Pretending anything else is what they should try and capitalize on is silly.