• dan@upvote.au
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      9 months ago

      The reason I mentioned the dot com bubble is because a lot of the companies back then failed because they couldn’t figure out a sustainable business model. It was mostly hype-driven with the idea of getting users first, then figuring out monetization later.

      That’s why we have ad-supported sites today. It was the main business model that was the most sustainable.

      There were a lot of small sites, sure, but a lot of them were hosted on services with no real business model. Even back then, not a lot of people self-hosted.