There’s a lot of big tech coming on and often times greed is the main cause of it becoming spooky. now I know some of you people might say evil people are just gonna do evil. but we can mitigate that by having more options for monetization. there’s not much option with open source hardware for now. so I’m just gonna talk about software. mainly, messaging apps. y’know the recent news with signal.

with signal getting all corporate people are going to use it less. because most of us use it for that reason. privacy. if they are going to take away that. they inherently have no value anymore.

what are we gonna do now then? well, we should start building our own empire. our own minds are worth millions alone, so start making money with it. I’m going to tell you my own secret to success.

the copycat method.

if they want to do it to us, let’s do it to them again!. embrace extend extinguish.

Now, I’m not gonna tell you all of my ideas because all of you people are actually smart enough to think for yourself. but one example.

(We have already one point in this one, Open source. that means we are more private than any crap ass proprietary spookware. and we have to sell that to people. make sure they know our software is the best their is.)

You’ll learn more by observing how things that are proven to work.

1. take notes from the examples we have.

for an example take something from LINE, they’re selling sticker made by artists. but make it authentic they use proprietary software to make sure there’s no counterfeits. how can we fix that?

2. Optional Step two Implement to open software.

so it’s basically impossible to do it their way this time. Turns out we already have an example on this one! ever heard of NFTs? now the authenticity can be solved by us having proof of ownership. now the chat application can stay open source.

3. Advertise it.

You need people to know you’re there in order to sell your stuff. you should know how to do it. you can use the spooky ads. this is kind hypocritical but the people you are targeting are the right people. you can copy the good old corporate psychological tactic. make them believe they have a “”“”““problem””“”“” they need to fix. this case is privacy. make them feel concerned and they will come to you.

the second target is the art consumers. let them know their favorite artists are making stickers here. also you can advertise jobs for art creators. maybe those japanese mangaka would like a raise for their jobs(?) who knows.

4. EMBRACE, EXTEND, EXTINGUISHHHH.

so now you have a great starting point. you already made a chat app and have some neat little features. now for your homework is just this question; how can you make this app better than the competitor? what makes it different from them? now that you think about that just rinse and repeat the steps. don’t underestimate the power of your galactic brain.

kind of a shitpost, thanks for reading anyway.