Re:Ask HN: What are some black arts used by founders?
by muzani on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:39AM
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As with all the other examples, there's some legit situations and some less honest situations.
The word hustle describes this activity well: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hustle
If it's a traditional desktop program like Word or Excel, I think it's perfectly fine to add up users from different platforms (which often even require a separate purchase). If it's something like Skype or Netflix, I can see how there might be some overlap -- the same person might use it from their iPhone one day and from the web on a different day. Is that what you mean?