Comment by mannders

There’s a fine line between validating an early MVP by verifying whether users will pay, and scamming users. An entrepreneur acting in good faith would ideally take this strong positive signal, listen to their initial users feedback, and iterate towards something better.

A natural consequence of the currently low barrier for developers to ship a whole product indie, is that you’ll see more low value projects online. I can understand how that’s annoying.

But when one strikes gold and creates real value, I think it’s pretty cool how it’s ran by an individual who truly cares and understands the target user and problem.

I prefer that to an over funded VC project that gets dissolved, or a Google project that gets EOL from layoffs.