I’m not sure what that says about the quality of the Memmy team or that of Reddit or both.

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    Maybe it’s easier if all your resources aren’t slowed down by board meetings solely for the purpose of “how can we monetize this”

    That’s what happens when you put profit ahead of function. Putting the cart before the horse something something

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      Pretty much this. It’s crazy how bloated the app is with a 1000 ways to monetize the shit out of the user (reddit premium, reddit coins, shop, NFT???)

      Like holy shit it’s unreal how bad the main app is compared to a clean experience like Apollo and Memmy

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      This is exactly it.

      It’s not about good or bad developers, it’s about priority.

      “We want to make a good app experience to attract users”

      Vs

      “We want to make an app that shows as many ads and pulls as much user info as possible”

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      It’s really depressing that you can’t just build good things that people need / like because it’s not always profitable to do so. Any time money gets into the conversation it becomes a nightmare. Every bit of a project just becomes this battle for the lowest bidder and lowest quality possible to achieve a minimum viable product in a way that leads to technical debt and an unsustainable code base.

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        It’s kind of funny that people are talking about solving the alignment problem for AI when we haven’t even solved it between people and corporations.

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        Of course you can, as an individual hobby project, or a small team project.

        Founders are the most motivated, usually not by money initially. As the thing grows and needs more attention than a single founder can provide, convincing others to be just as invested is going to require some form of motivation and money being the proxy that can get us the most things we need to live our lives, usually ends up the most efficient incentive and motivator.