Hi! This is a little microproject I want to do: I want to compress my years of experience building the API backend of a top-50 Steam game into a bunch of weird, rambling advice that I can deliver with all of the authority of someone who can’t differentiate success due to merit from success due to luck.
hey, I’m your new account rep at SaaS company
I notice you’re using our product, could we meet to chat about how you’re using it and determine if you could be spending more money? my business is relationships, specifically very irritating ones
perhaps you’ve noticed that I’ve called you on a personal number
how did I find this number? immaterial
I saw someone on Mastodon pillorying someone’s little personal code project for not being FOSS
ok, random stranger, I’m subtweeting you
seventeen people in all of history have ever made a profit from FOSS software, indies have it hard enough already, don’t try to get them to release their source code just because you think it will probably work out for them
every FOSS monetization model:
the first one produces vanishingly low returns and the last two don’t usually work for games and have you getting run out of business by Amazon
basically my theory of ops tooling is that if you’re a small team without a dedicated specialist, it needs to be rock solid and dirt simple, and SaaS providers get you there a lot faster than DIY
