wouterinho

Thank you for referring to this episode, I found it really resonated with the article.

Congratulations! I hope the product continues to be here in the future. The blogpost seems to be reassuring, but with acquisitions you never know.

When we started out with our company, RescueTime was one of our "competitors": more or less the same technology, but different use cases (discovery vs productivity). I would often find Joe having the same issues and posting in the same support tickets are I did.

I have always followed them since and think they actually have a very relevant product in this world of ever increasing interruptions. My condolences.

We also had the same issues with (trying) to publish an extension to the Safari gallery: long waiting times, unclear communication, publishing without notification, etc. Besides that, the move towards the requirement of Xcode does not bode well for managing a multi-browser codebase in JS.

Google and to a lesser extent Mozilla are doing way better on this and seem way more experienced in handling the extension ecosystem.

Quality of content in this way can be measured in these micropayments + refunds instead of points/votes. Down with clickbait articles and up with good content.

By the way, I also fit the target audience: not buying newspapers, but I have added money to my Blendle account and spend it every now and then.

I am wondering about the economics though: the traction seems good, but is it enough to really add value for the publishers? I'd love to see more numbers on this.