Success = helping more people?
Today Notion changed its pricing strategy. They removed the "block" limitation. Now, you can put as much info as you want in their tool (with a Personal plan).
The product manager of Notion tweeted something interesting about it:
Success ≠ valuation, headcount, press
Success = helping more people solve more problems
I guess we all want success here, we're builders, entrepreneurs. But do we really care about helping others? How can you help your customers, how can you bring more value to them?
That's a very deep question. We started to think that way a few days ago at Logology. One of the first answers was to be more generous. We drastically reduce the pricing! That was the easy step to help more people, to be more accessible. Now we want to find a way to helping hackers/entrepreneurs some free resources on how to make a logo, to have a nice branding.
And you, how are you helping more people?
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I agree here @xavier. I've heard it said before that we are often rewarded in proportion to the difficulty of the problems we try to solve. Whether you want to take that as a definition of 'success' or not is up to each individual I suppose. Helping people solve problems is at the root of any business relationship. The extent to which we can effectively solve these problems will also impact the amount of people we can help.
At Open Source Capital we want to solve the problem for creators and entrepreneurs who don't have the technical knowledge, to get set up and build their business online.
As the long tail of human creative output continues to play out online, more and more people are able to pursue and make a living from sub-niches and passion projects. Helping those who are non-technical to get set up and earn a living in this way is the problem we are trying to solve.
I didn't know your project, seems pretty neat! Why "opensourcecapital" it sounds like a webagency to me (but I'm a coder :P)
Thanks very much @xavier. I appreciate the feedback on the name also. What do you think a better fitting name might be?
Ahaha man I have no idea, naming is sooooo hard :)
Hi Xavier,
Thanks for the interesting share and thoughts. I do believe that Notion has a point in tweeting that, success does equal helping people. But on the other side it also equals lots of money, coworkers and press. Companies of that size can usually do a "we are so good for the world" campagn and have the best of both worlds. Like Elon Musk smashing his wind shield with a rock on stage.
But then again, that's just my opinion. What I would not do for Logology is cut your price in halve, that might feel like helping but is it really? Your product has value, and that's the price people pay for it. I would suggest in being generous in time or free access for students/teachers for example.
I do want to emphasize that I think its great thing you are doing at making this a priority, being generous makes the world a better place and in the end that's what we all want right?
Good luck! If you have a minute I would also appreciate your opinion on my post; https://www.indiehackers.com/post/validation-a-wireless-time-machine-backup-saas-3e3555e130
Yes, I'm not naive. I know it's a business strategy. But still, I really think that growth is about helping others, bring value out there. That's probably way more efficient than being selfish!
I totally agree with you! I also did not wanted to give you the feeling of being naive, apologies if I did!
It's OK :) Regarding the pricing strategy, we know our product has value but we started Logology to help entrepreneurs having a nice logo, not a randomly created symbol. That our motivation from day 1. The super high price was in total contradiction with the vision!
I don't know what you mean by success, but i am determined to help our customers in any way possible, our customer base is generally weak in online engagement thus helping them navigate their day to day challenges through our platform is our number one goal !
Success is a pretty large concept you're right. I guess success = achieve what you want to achieve
I very much measure my 'success' against how many people I help. Mine is more in a community sense, but that itself is still a product.
Everything I do here (and previously at Ministry of Testing) starts off with the question: (how) is this helpful?
Here's a list of helpful words that I like to refer to. 😊
As a CM, that's your number 1 mission for sure yes!
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