> Wanted to give it a shot but got disappointed when I launched it and the following happened
Yup, well, that's what happens when you take money from VCs or other third party investors, you need to monetise / demonstrate ROI / need numbers for your investor slide-decks.
I'll stick to my old-fashioned spyware free terminal thanks very much. Why overcomplicate things that don't need to be complicated.
Yep. In my last project one of the key USPs was privacy. The product vision was built around it and it was fundamental to our positioning in the market.
But I made the mistake of letting investors share executive control of the company, and pop there goes the pro-privacy policy.
In defence of founders everywhere, however, I will say that the investors didn’t just say “no”. They strung me along for almost a year, insisting we would be meeting about it, recording decisions where we apparently agreed, even pointing out those decisions while they flagrantly violated them in practice.
So who knows what’s happened here. A lot of the messaging sounds like what happened to me. “Yes we know privacy is important and in the future mumble mumble.”
Yup, well, that's what happens when you take money from VCs or other third party investors, you need to monetise / demonstrate ROI / need numbers for your investor slide-decks.
I'll stick to my old-fashioned spyware free terminal thanks very much. Why overcomplicate things that don't need to be complicated.