Gradual enshittification is the only way to launch a product now.
You gotta launch a product that’s good. Better than the existing competition. But this happens with some serious seed money or angel investor. Essentially, some naive rich dude.
But eventually it needs to make a profit.
They know that eventually the product will have to be as bad or worse than what’s already around…but they will have to boil the frog or else people will jump immediately as soon as the next thing comes around.
That gives the founders
plenty of time to enshittify and bail before it turns to complete crap.
Gradual enshittification is the only way to launch a product now.
You gotta launch a product that’s good. Better than the existing competition. But this happens with some serious seed money or angel investor. Essentially, some naive rich dude.
But eventually it needs to make a profit.
They know that eventually the product will have to be as bad or worse than what’s already around…but they will have to boil the frog or else people will jump immediately as soon as the next thing comes around.
That gives the founders plenty of time to enshittify and bail before it turns to complete crap.