All these Black Friday deals I've been seeing from small makers reminded me of something Adam Wathan tweeted when Laravel Nova was released:
Related but sort of unrelated, when your friends make cool stuff that you want to check out, buy it even if they would give it to you for free if you asked.
Supporting your friends > using your connections just to benefit yourself. twitter.com/adamwathan/sta…20:57 PM - 22 Aug 2018Adam Wathan @adamwathanJust purchased my @laravelphp Nova Pro license 🤙🏻 Excited to build a few tools to simplify customer support for my courses. Will be nice to finally have something more purpose-built than pure Sequel Pro 😅 Especially with such little effort! 🙌🏻 https://t.co/1sObUudqS0
After this Black Friday craze, it clicked for me. Everyone needs money to support their family/lifestyle, but we also spend some of this money in buying products made by others (not because they're made by friends, but because we need them for our work, learning, etc.). This is how capitalism works.
But, as I said earlier, in most cases we are mostly exchanging dollars. I may purchase your course, but you may already have bought my book. So, if we assume no money is earned or lost in the process, can we just get rid of it?
Here's a crazy idea: a closed, invite-only community of creators, where you can access everyone's content in exchange for your own. And the best thing is, everyone would get more than what they're giving.
If you are interested in the idea, I've created a landing page where you can sign up. If enough makers do, we'll get to work how well this works in practice.
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