Those acquisition numbers will just keep becoming larger and larger until one day, when I'm old enough, someone will just acquire the only other player left in the field and Earth will be one single megacorporation.
AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's but I guess it's AOL-Time-Netflix-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's now.
So Cable TV died decades ago when they first put ads onto the service that was sold on not having any ads, right?
Enshittification is done because it is so reliable. Customers just keep buying, doesn't really seem to matter how poorly you treat them.
Shrinkflation has gone on for decades and there's nothing stopping it from continuing because what are you going to do, not buy 90% of products in the grocery store? Good luck.
The problem is that businesses reach a sort of escape velocity where you can abuse your customer and they either do not react to it or have no other choice. The entire economy has worked to ensure that every consumer experiences trained helplessness when it comes to consuming, because that's more profitable.
And worse, when you search they KNOW what you want to watch and will show you EVERYTHING they have that is NOT what you want.
Infuriating, I reverted back to the old ways a year back and haven't regretted it.
Same with Spotify, who has a solid catalog that I was happy to pay for. Now I pay double, for podcasts, shows, and now even freaking videos that I have never wanted or asked for and have no choice to not take.
And now they also the audacity to show me ads on PAID PLANS.
They don't deserve our money, customer focus is long gone.
Really? Darn, that is such BS. I was already looking out to be fair, only reason I'm still there is because of my family plan and older parents who will struggle to switch.
That being said, I don't mind additional plans to be fair. Let me pay for what I use, not what you force down my throat. What I mind is the constant enshittification.
Interesting pricing model, and it seems the pain of Sentry is getting real those days. Many folks need something simpler, that just works. Totally support the idea.
The alternative starting with a G has been mentioned a few times already, so I'll also mention that's been operating in the space and that I happily use : https://www.bugsink.com/. It's trying to solve the exact same pain.
Disclaimer : I know the owner :), so I may be biased. But generally I like to see more niche alternatives to the massive players in the field
Please don't hijack competitors' Show HNs to promote your own thing. A single mention is arguably ok, but beyond that it gets too be too much, especially when related accounts are involved or it crosses into multiple threads.
It works out because sentry has basically gone full solarwinds. Trying to get rid of the small accounts because they only care about the enterprise market anymore
I guess I’ve got a lot of resentment for when I suddenly paid for 100k reserved errors suddenly that I didn’t remember asking for. I probably figured out I have control about it at some point and that’s why I decided to not do the Schlepp of changing the error reporting on all these small projects.
So while I can actually corroborate that your cheapest plan has not changed my takeaway is that changes to billing just make people unreasonably resentful. At least me.
> I had a running service written in htmx for some time. It is a clinic opening hour service to inform my patients when I will be available in which clinic. (Yes, I am not a programmer, but a healthcare professional.)
-> that was pretty freaking cool to read, loved it
also chuckled at the idea of my website making, health professional going all "What the fuck." in front of his codebase.
what was taken from you? point to the source history that's been removed please. It's funny that stuff like this means people won't ever develop in the open. Hope that makes y'all happy
The way we intend to make money is off of merchants in the future. -> Is this on the website? Couldn't see it anywhere and that makes it a big nono for me
No, the landing page communicates customer fees (which are 0 for peanut to peanut flows and pass through for banking flows). We're very transparent with any FX or fees users experience.
I'm not quite sure I understand the logic of mentioning future merchant monetization plans on the landing page?
Currently merchants get kind of shafted by VISA/Mastercard. Not only do they have to wait until they get their funds (sometimes even up to two weeks!), which is horrible for a business where cash flow is important, margins low and float very tight; they also pay huge fees on top!
Depending on geo, these fees can go from 1-3% (total) to >6-8% in geos like Argentina and Brazil (and even worse in some other places). That's insane.
Whilst stablecoin & blockchain adoption is not fundamentally impossible for Visa/MC (see this post for more info https://x.com/uwwgo/status/1973038511897923848), it is still a very long way off, and we expect to be very competitive, especially with sovereign nations pushing their own alternatives that we interoperate with (PIX, Mercadopago, DUITNOW, MB WAY etc)
Well, as a potential end customer, I want to know why I can trust you. You product is free, and you're handling my money. You telling me your revenue model is through merchants gives me the confidence you're not gonna pull me a weird one.
Could be as simple as "But how do you make money then" in the FAQ.
Was so excited about Remarkable, and got disappointed with basically everything I was excited about. Not for me. I do look like the look and feel of the thing though, shame i know it won't fit what I need.
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