Tren Griffin on Twitter / X

Money as Message | Andreessen Horowitz

Network effects — where a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it — are one of the key ways software businesses maintain a better product and more defensible market position. This is especially true of messaging apps like WeChat — which, as I’ve argued before, is not just...

Software as Fast Fashion

Clothes have never been cheaper. These days a t-shirt is often cheaper than a decent cup of tea in a cafe. The wonders of capitalism. At least that is how it is often described. And when you point at the underpaid, gruesome labor that people in poorer regions of the planet have to do to […]

scott belsky on Twitter / X

(2) DIY software will replace certain apps for consumers AND the enterprise. There has been much discussion of AI code reviews, GitHub co-pilot, and no-code app builders for the enterprise, but what are the implications of agent-assisted software development for consumers?…— scott belsky (@scottbelsky) December 29, 2024

Not all good products make good businesses - The Intercom Blog

It's easy to assume that solving a real problem with a good product magically creates a successful software business. Sadly that’s never guaranteed.

Selling Your Software To Businesses [TwilioCon 2012 presentation] | Kalzumeus Software

SaaS Pricing Models & How They Affect Valuation

Even if people haven’t heard of software as a service (SaaS), chances are they have used one. That’s what makes SaaS such a powerhouse in the world of digital assets. The SaaS business model relies on recurring subscriptions for its income. Subscribers pay to essentially lease software that is hosted in the cloud. This means there are no […]

GREG ISENBERG on Twitter / X

I think the most interesting thing about Jack Dorsey's "Slack killer" is the idea around shared compute.I haven't seen people talk about it so here are my thoughts FWIW:Open models got good, close enough to the paid frontier stuff to run for real. But the strongest ones need… https://t.co/b5PBgYjAGL— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) July 25, 2026

In Thrall to Scarcity

As I’ve talked about in this space in the past, I’ve been coming to some conclusions about free software (open source, or whatever you want to call it): the economics of it, like anythi…

The Money In Open-Source Software | TechCrunch

It’s no secret that open-source technology -- once the province of radicals, hippies and granola eaters -- has gone mainstream. According to industry estimates, more than 180 young companies that give away their software raised roughly $3.2 billion in financing from 2011 to 2014. Despite the growing popularity of open-source software, though, many open-source companies are not financially healthy.

Purchasing Power Parity: fair pricing for your SaaS product

Developer, writer, indie hacker · 📍 Montreal, QC

Why Your Super Promising Enterprise Customer Went Dark

…and what you can do about it.

How Twitter Found Its Money Mojo

The not-so-dismal science of Twitternomics

Here's my plan to save Twitter: let's buy it | Nathan Schneider

Corporate sharks are circling around the platform we love. But there is another way: shared ownership, where the community takes control

Why We Can't Have Nice Software - Andrew Kelley

The problem with software is that it's too powerful. It creates so much wealth so fast that it's virtually impossible to not distribute it.

Rohan Paul on Twitter / X

Google is trying to win AI by making compute cheap, not by beating Nvidia on raw speed.Nvidia sells GPUs to clouds with a big 70%+ margin that sits on top of manufacturing and R&D cost and raises cloud prices.Google builds TPUs for itself at near manufacturing cost, adds no… https://t.co/aSgWRf0HY7 pic.twitter.com/T3Fzc6czwg— Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) November 25, 2025