I don't want entirely new consumer apps on BSV. I want plu…
I don't want entirely new consumer apps on BSV.
I want plugins and extensions for apps I already use.
Gmail plugin to add pay/get paid to email.
Slack plugin to add message fees.
Calendly plugin to allow price per meeting.
Zoom plugin to charge for Q$A.
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Why would you want to have to keep paying monthly for slack per user seat no matter how little you use it?
Bitcoin is pay per use, not a subscription services. We’re going to bankrupt everything you’re currently using.
Why waste time making plugins?
Cool. But creating a new category is needed before you create products to fill it.
A new data/payment structure is a new category/use case.
Get people using it within current habits first. Then they'll demand your newer, better tools.
Also, as a biz owner, I'd much rather pay $8/seat for unlimited Slack usage and never have to think about it than a metered/micro $ model.
Not everything is improved with micropayments.
Also also, you're mostly solving problems people don't know they have. Not felt needs.
"Use a new app when you're not unhappy with Slack" is tough.
"Use this plugin that makes Slack more fun" is easier, and can lead to "I wish Slack was more optimized"
Everything y’all write on slack is being read by the VCs who invested in slack. Every innovation and discussion you have is being milked and categorized to be stolen from you and sold back to you at a later date. You pay for that.
Bitcoin fixes this.
That's a completely different value prop.
The privacy/own your data pitch will win over some people. Good niche to target. (Like DuckDuckGo does with search)
But very few have reason to be concerned rn about slack secrets being stolen.
Twetch did which is why we’ve rolled our own.
Bitcoin ledger is public though, so scanning messages there also possible unless encrypted, and I suspect Slack and others could also be encrypted.
Everything on Bitcoin will be encrypted in a couple of years.
Posting something that is unencrypted will be seen as weird and altruistic.
This commie free internet where you make Zuck and Dorsey rich while others free ride off of your ideas is over.
I'm all for it, but platforms got big for a reason.
Users are on social because they benefit. It's not zero-sum, but win-win.
You can make a better win-win, but naive to pretend people are getting bilked on FB. They are getting value.
On Facebook people are getting mindless entertainment, not value.
You might be getting value on Facebook, because you’re a businessman and an intellectual.
Most people are getting time milked by Zuck bot and accomplishing/learning nothing.
Would love to see default encryption.
Fine me a VC who can take an idea from Slack message and make viable business to compete with me.
Ideas are way less valuable than people imagine.
Doubt it's worth anyone's time to scour Slack channels looking to steal them.
PS - bitcoin is a public ledger
Value in the economic sense is subjective.
They clearly value it.
You need them to value your product too. Not on your definition, but theirs.
I don’t want to debate ‘commie free internet’, but I don’t see this as unique to ‘the Internet’, tho obv exacerbated, w/ attention-based gamification as a foundation. These are issues that exist in the existing private markets; Internet is one ‘channel’.
There's value in FB. The social network there mirrors IRL social contacts more closely for me. Crummy content is more informative when I know who posted it (though most informing me about that person). FB is a great NETWORK with garbage flowing through it
https://slack.com/help/articles/218915077-Fair-Billing-Policy
Can you elaborate on your vision for Slack message fees?
Integration where I could set a message per day/week quota for users, and set a price per message they pay when they exceed it.
$ goes into company happy hour/retreat fund or somesuch.
Ensures minimal slack spaming and more productivity!
These are great ideas!
Yes, people are being "data raped" but don't seem to care enough to leave. My entire middle aged friend/acquaintance network still uses FB. e.g. It's a place to quickly sell a pair of used kids' skiis via your friends' networks without using Craigslist.
As does Rocket Chat
/pay @15525 0.05$ in 5 years. - Are facebook and twitter dead, yet?
/pay @15525 $0.05 in 5 years. - Are facebook and twitter dead, yet?
I will send you a reminder on: Tue Aug 19 2025 13:22:00 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)https://twetch.app/t/9c5aa4ee78017991b620db1c78f54c0fdae8c5eaa7dc5e4b18a409e2ea03d038