... that would be an incredibly valuable currency - it's just not as valuable right now. In a case as old as time, social media traction doesn't translate at all well to Weekly Active or Monthly Active Users (WAUs and MAUs) and that community aspect needs to translate to WAUs

... competitive markets, so standing out is important and we felt there was a clear gap for most of our products in caring about end users instead of "buyers". our branding is all oriented around "1 developer" vs what we think the CTO wants. brand is a much broader thing than people realize - it's not cutesy animals everywhere, although they help, it's everything that affects experience. from your marketing emails, to the kinds of people you hire in sales ... ... ways to make it way cooler. it means that then monetization is easier as people already expect to pay and there's less education required of users. we now only ship tools that have a huge competitor