Written for the Bootstrappers Blog:
Platform. There are books like Platform Revolution and The Business Of Platforms that tell us that we want to make our products “platforms” or we want to build a business model where in our products we can facilitate the exchange of data with other products. In doing so we gain access to more customers, make customers stickier, and ultimately, we do more of what the promise of computing in general is meant to do: we make the people that choose to use our products more efficient (which in turn makes our products more valuable).
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