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Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by hackerdrew on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:25AM (#37630112)
Why don’t you exploit that market failure?
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by danbruc on Sunday September 24, 2023 @03:05AM (#37630811)
Not interested. I would feel bad for overcharging people and getting rich from that. And if I would charge them the actual costs, then I would mostly just destroy that guy's business and save some thousand people each a couple of bucks on some utilities that they almost certainly do not really need and are voluntarily paying for.
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by kyawzazaw on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:11AM (#37631092)
How are you able to tell with that much certainty of the users needs?
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by danbruc on Sunday September 24, 2023 @05:00AM (#37631320)
If those people had only access to overpriced water, then yes, making this market failure go away would be a worthwhile undertaking with a meaningful positive outcome. But people getting overcharged on a progressbar around their Twitter profile picture, who cares? And who could not live without that or do it manually with Paint at the cost of some additional time?

My original comment was just meant as a general comment that this kind of profit is not supposed to exist. I am not sure if I want to call it unethical but I am really tempted to do. You make yourself a nice life and others do the work.

Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by kyawzazaw on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:05AM (#37633802)
> But people getting overcharged on a progressbar around their Twitter profile picture, who cares?

evidently, these people, who are paying money are finding value in it and they care.

> And who could not live without that?

What does this even mean? What difference is it from people who want their landscaping or house look a certain way so they pay money to others to do that for them. at the

> or do it manually with Paint at the cost of some additional time?

time is valuable or they just dont want to do it.

I don't understand the logic of all of these. What???

Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by imgabe on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:19AM (#37632423)
Sound like the market is working just fine then.
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by danbruc on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:38AM (#37632572)
How do you come to that conclusion?
Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by imgabe on Sunday September 24, 2023 @09:48AM (#37633080)
The price reflects the availability of the product and the willingness of the customers to pay. What more do you want?

Clearly there are factors affecting the willingness of competitors to provide a cheaper offering, you just listed them.