A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living making music

Re:A brief history of why artists are no longer making a liv... by Swizec on Friday March 22, 2019 @01:50AM (#19459927)

I think it’s about opportunity cost. It’s often cheaper to outsource everything not-core and focus your time and attention on the things only you can do. Where “you” is whatever you consider the relevant company/team/businessunit.

Can I build a website? Yes. Can I save money by paying someone to build a website and focus instead on filling it with great content? You bet.

Same applies for SaaS. It would be a waste of time/money/effort to build my own ConvertKit for example

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Re:A brief history of why artists are no longer making a liv... by mirimir on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:11AM (#19459996)

There's a huge difference between outsourcing and SaaS. Sure, it's cheaper to pay someone to build your website. That's outsourcing. But then you run it on a server that you lease. If it's running on something managed by a third party, it can just disappear. And that's SaaS.

There's also the issue of sharing sensitive data with SaaS providers. Just think of all the data leaks that's caused. The Squarespace heatmap stuff we just saw. The deals between Google and phone manufacturers. The behavioral-ad-delivery morass.

Re ConvertKit, the alternative would look like "git clone foo".

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