Some Pillowfort Thoughts
Dec. 29th, 2021 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorI think this month is the first month Pillowfort met their monthly funding goals? This was accomplished by offering to unlock special badges and a winter frame icon for user avatars contingent on whether a person donated or overall donation results. So this seems to have been a successful business choice, at least for now.
I think the people working on Pillowfort are gradually learning from their various mistakes. A lot of those seem to be PR related or business related. I do hope they will continue to improve in those areas. Though they have had various technical issues, I think those can largely be attributed to the scope of the problems when one is trying to build a social media platform practically from scratch with incredibly limited resources. They really seem to be doing a suprisingly good job on the technical end despite their incredibly limited resources, and it's been pretty cool to see all the different features they've added just since the time I've been there. Even though Tumblr essentially did the same thing by designing a new type of social media when it was starting out it also got way more resources because of the more conventional way they operated the business-end of things. But that eventually got Tumblr to where we are today, so I don't have any qualms about Pillowfort deciding not to go that route (there may also be a component of that route being closed off to them anyway, and a recognition of that fact). It currently seems like Pillowfort wants to implement some freemium additions, somewhat like what Dreamwidth has, so we'll see how that goes.
I know there are plenty of people who don't want to try Pillowfort, and that's perfectly understandable, but if anyone I know decides they do, you can let me know and I'll send you an invite.
I think the people working on Pillowfort are gradually learning from their various mistakes. A lot of those seem to be PR related or business related. I do hope they will continue to improve in those areas. Though they have had various technical issues, I think those can largely be attributed to the scope of the problems when one is trying to build a social media platform practically from scratch with incredibly limited resources. They really seem to be doing a suprisingly good job on the technical end despite their incredibly limited resources, and it's been pretty cool to see all the different features they've added just since the time I've been there. Even though Tumblr essentially did the same thing by designing a new type of social media when it was starting out it also got way more resources because of the more conventional way they operated the business-end of things. But that eventually got Tumblr to where we are today, so I don't have any qualms about Pillowfort deciding not to go that route (there may also be a component of that route being closed off to them anyway, and a recognition of that fact). It currently seems like Pillowfort wants to implement some freemium additions, somewhat like what Dreamwidth has, so we'll see how that goes.
I know there are plenty of people who don't want to try Pillowfort, and that's perfectly understandable, but if anyone I know decides they do, you can let me know and I'll send you an invite.