By Fzzr
I subscribed in response to this. I’ve been using the site for years, and I used turntable before that. I really hope they can get it together, but I honestly doubt they have a chance. It sounds like they’re within weeks, not months, of running out of cash. $6 each (or even $25 each) from the tiny fraction of users likely to donate will not give them the 6-month window they want according to this blog post: http://blog.plug.dj/2015/09/keep-us-plugged-in/
It’s been a good run, but they didn’t even really try to make money until about a year ago. When they did, it was alongside a site relaunch which took away many features that had been free until then and put them behind either slowly accrued points or cash money.
I’ll be there until the lights go out. In the meantime, does anyone have a suggestion for the next most similar site, where a plug community could migrate en masse? The room I’m in has been there for four years, and it would be a shame for it all to vanish in a puff of a failed attempt to get Series A funding.
See more about this article by clicking the link here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10236616
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