> Or can one random person, working in their spare time, build just the right app and reach millions of people?
I agree that it's very difficult for one person; however, to win doesn't always need to be defined as becoming the most popular, or reaching millions of people. What if it's 1,000 people paying $10/month? That is possible for one person going the service-oriented route.
This isn't a nitpick about Sandstorm per se — I do love what they're doing — and I understand they're making this argument because what they do isn't a service. But I do think it's possible to find diversity/decentralization in small, independent service-oriented companies that don't care about being popular on the scale of Facebook or Google.
> Or can one random person, working in their spare time, build just the right app and reach millions of people?
I agree that it's very difficult for one person; however, to win doesn't always need to be defined as becoming the most popular, or reaching millions of people. What if it's 1,000 people paying $10/month? That is possible for one person going the service-oriented route.
This isn't a nitpick about Sandstorm per se — I do love what they're doing — and I understand they're making this argument because what they do isn't a service. But I do think it's possible to find diversity/decentralization in small, independent service-oriented companies that don't care about being popular on the scale of Facebook or Google.