paulus_magnus

app-ing an industry won't allow you to charge more for the same service. Real innovation is supposed to bring costs down and productivity up which in turn increase demand for the service.

The are only so many women in tech because 95% of jobs in tech suck balls.

1. entry level with zero career progression

2. agile-scrum micro management

3. task oriented, big picture is for business (grown ups)

4. pay is good, starts above other jobs but hits ceiling after 5y

5. introverts only (95% time is spent sitting inside your head)

6. working with code (inanimate matter) is less interesting than working with people,

7. most often you're surrounded by nerds who don't have a life

Surely the above isn't the case if you're in a successful company, but 90% people maintain legacy internal app in a big corpo.

None of those ...

Hope you got my point. The above are only meant as an example.

Main idea is to cripple* the free tier enough to push a chunk of current users from free into pro. Some will leave but you don't want them anyway (they will never pay).

* how exactly cripple? This is the product design / product-market-fit stage work that was skipped when building jsbin.com

Why don't you "motivate" frequent users to start paying?

ex. by making the free version (gradually) worse until you see revenue.

ex.

- non pro user pastebins last 5mins, 5 views etc

- non pro users can post 1 pastebin per day (cookies, IP)

- non pro user pastebins are max x characters long.

- you get the idea

- there are clever people on this forum who will come up with good ideas to help you out.

- do everything BUT show ads, PLEASE. Internet's sole purpose is almost all that already.

Thanks, didn't know about bigpicture.js. The whole idea isn't that super new.

Not sure if I communicated it across: Writelive drawings are always updated in real time. Think shared whiteboard. Co-drawing / co-writing. Currently you can only view via web. Drawing is limited to Android - drawing without a pressure sensitive stylus offers bad experience anyway.

True. I'm on the fence here.

Keeping "real" thickness slows down rendering by a factor of 1.5-2 depending on browser used. Images look better though. I'm not sure what users want at this stage of the project. Perhaps a toggle?

Having worked for big corporations in Europe, I'd like to see manager types spend 10% of time technical people spend on self-optimising themselves, their working environment, post-mortems, understanding antipatterns, productivity etc.