To monetize.
I wish my spell checker would pick it up and blow it to bits. I hate that word.
If I finish a cool project, the first thing I hear from people is: “So how are you going to monetize this?”
Why must everything turn a profit? And then, why must some greasy people do all that’s in their power to increase that profit?
You can measure a product by the profit it brings you, and become dead in my eyes. You could also measure a product by how many users actually use and like it. Aren’t they the ones you built it for? When you sit down and start implementing and testing the UI, you put yourself in the place of the user. Do you ever think “aw, but this modal means they can’t click the banner ads” ?
When developers work on a project, they either do it with passion or they do it for the money. Did you ever notice how the big expensive projects, written in C# or Java usually have a lot of bugs, a horrible UI and take forever to launch? They were most probably built for the money.
Did you ever notice how fast open source projects’ bugs get fixed?
I guess you could say I have a problem, eh?
As long as I know I won’t go hungry, I’ll tweak you contact form, I’ll spend a day trying to repair your videos – even a Saturday – and I’ll go long into the night trying to squash a bug. All that for free.
I won’t fix your banners though. Money can wait, but UX has to be good now!
It’s never about the money or product or man-hours, it’s about the team and the people.
Remember that next time, OK?
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You just climbed up a lot of spots on my list of favourite people with this one. :]
Nice thought, but how are you going to monetize it?
Stii care e scopul intreprinderii? Profitul.
Daca n-am auzit asta de zeci de mii de ori, si la cursul de ‘gestiunea intreprinderii’, am si gasit stand ca piatra de capatai la inceputul materiei.
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Marketingul se ocupa cu clientul, dar numai in limita unui buget. Buget care e controlat de aia care conduc intreprinderea. Care e scopul lor?
Bravo, profitul.
Nu e nimic altceva de invatat.
ily, you mean I wasn’t number one all this time? pfft!
Cristina, you’ll get yours when I see you.
Camelia, I already know how things tick. I’m just hoping for a change, thank you. But you did do a great job elaborating on the obvious, so I’ll give you that.
What exactly will I get? Of course you know that I must estimate my costs and benefits for each of my actions, including meeting you. And I’m not getting out of my bed unless there’s a substantial profit to count on.
Cristina, you can stay in your bed. I can work with that.
Horia,
sorry, but you’re being a bit too extreme on this one. I hate the greedy corporatists and apps that are made purely for money making (usually outsourced to cheap Indians), but you can’t fall on the other side, take Facebook, who’s just getting a lot of funding w/o an actual source of revenue, or Twitter, who still doesn’t have a good purpose or a revenue stream. One needs a revenue stream to make a living, pay employees, expenses, otherwise it’s just pro-bono work. There is a balance in there, even banners have their own purpose, sadly lots of clients/website owners abuse them.
About the UX, from my point of view, that’s the base brick of an app that ensures good revenue.
Si unui copil care te intreaba de ce nu poate trece strada printr-un loc fara zebra ii explici evidentul.
Dar pentru ca explicatiile mele sunt cam extremiste, zic doar ca sunt de-acord cu Tudor.
Tudor, and Camelia, apparently: Granted, you need some form of revenue. Nobody said it had to be sleazy. I never said I did not understand the purpose of ads, I just never saw them as a priority.
Tudor, jQuery makes revenue, and it is not monetized.
Camelia, nu scapi asa usor.