Comment by carlosjobim
9 months ago
> But, again, do they need to?
Why not? There are tens of millions of people who need/want a high quality search engine and can pay for it. Kagi deserves to be successful for having made a better search engine than Google. And their success can inspire other entrepreneurs to start delivering quality information products, so that maybe we can get out of this ad/scam fuelled quagmire once and for all.
Good products and ideas should be successful, that's progress.
That is a complete non-sequitur from the question of if Kagi will die if it doesn't grow.
This is orthogonal to questions of morality and justice.
> This is orthogonal to questions of morality and justice.
What?
If Kagi doesn't grow, I fully expect the owner to eventually shut it down and move on to more fruitful ventures. Nobody owes anybody to keep a business running. So yes, it would die.
Sorry If I wasn't clear. But I think the question is pretty clearly stated in the post you responded to.
The question is: Does Kagi needs to grow to be sustainable, and if so, how much.
>If Kagi doesn't grow, I fully expect the owner to eventually shut it down and move on to more fruitful ventures.
If you had a business that made you a $1 million per year profit, would you shut it down just because it wasnt growing?
Companies need to make a profit or they go out of business. However, most businesses don't need to continually increase users/ revenue to stay afloat. The coffee shop down my street is 100 years old, and didn't need to double in size every year.
I agree that nobody is owed anything. I also think that Kagi is "owed" or "deserves" tells us nothing about how many users they need to keep staff paid and the lights on.
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