No, I meant that I didn't see it coming that using my app would be more pleasant than using the Big Apps.

My Jumble's relay management increasingly reminds me of chaotic storage, from logistics. Just throw stuff at whichever random gateway is open, note where you threw it, move on. The difference being, that in logistics you have to keep track of where you threw things, to find it, later. With *chaotic relay storage*, you just make sure the storage place is generally known (monitored) and other services pick up the stuff you threw there and spread it around to the places you generally prefer to look for things. It's actually kind of wild.

I really didn't see that coming, but I think it's the brittleness of their database-funnel. Although their systems are distributed on their end, they have to push the traffic through crowded gateways.

You are also discounting the eye-watering sums of money that were burned through to build your "success" stories and how most of those attempts crashed and burned within years or even months. Survivorship bias. The cost of all of this has been really measely and we are still here and finally even starting to think up business models. Until now, we were just frantically trying to figure out how to see each others' shitposts. Time is money. We had no money, so it takes more time. Volunteer time and a shoestring budget. Even the paid devs aren't exactly winning the lottery, or something.

It will be more, but I think it will have a linear growth model, for a while.

Which is a good thing. Imagine, if e-mail had just been a client...

Nothing was good enough to try. It still isn't, but we can slowly see it getting there.

I said this, years ago, and it's still true. And now the clients and relays are actually getting pretty good. The quality of my experience is already higher, on my Jumble, than on Slack or Telegram. Which I hadn't thought possible and am sort of surprised by. We never had anything worth advertising to a larger audience, until now. The feature set was too small and the quality was too low. I think we're going to see a big jump in useability and comprehensiveness, this year, and a marketing push next year. I know that has big plans.

We're not a product, we're a protocol. We don't need 50 million users to break-even. None of this stuff really costs anything...

Aegean