• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I have no idea how we move forward.

    Maybe more self hosted and crowd hosted stuff is one solution?

    Currently private finding rounds hinge on convincing a few people who control millions to fund you. Part of that is showing them often highly confidential details of what you are trying to create.

    Crowd finding would be much. much more difficult. Now you have to convince millions of people to give you funding, possibly exposing you to having your ideas stolen before you can develop them.

    • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de
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      11 months ago

      Now you have to convince millions of people to give you funding

      There are examples of people doing this. Cooperatives can be owned by the workers or by the customers. They’re usually cheaper too.

      They don’t have the “move fast and break things” mentality however because by nature they don’t have a billionaire sponsors, so it’s harder to complete in a venture capitalist world. It’s when big money dries up, like the great depression, when you’ll see them popping up.

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      11 months ago

      It’s worked to a fair degree in gaming but yeah, not really a viable solution. Especially because the crowd itself is slowly getting robbed of its money.