While you're at it, keep a "CYA" file. Keep a log of all shady things that go down in the company. Keep a record of emails, Slack messages, meeting recordings, etc. Mutually assured destruction is often quite effective.
I was also "threatened" by a company in the bay area (not a YC company, but a company backed by a very large fund and the company is currently a "unicorn"). The founders also threatened me with things like, "It's a small world out here. Everyone knows each other in the bay area. Your work will follow you forever."
I ended up leaving the company after a massive shouting match with the CEO and nearly a first fight.
No one has ever heard of this story and it has never followed me anywhere.
Can't help but feel like you should have kept the SaaS and grew it more and sold it later, or at least keep it running and leverage it for an llc/business/tax deductions.
Probably the same one that Doctorow has used to monetize all his Creative Commons novels. It's jarring that I can freely read every book he's ever written (or at least most of them), but not a short blog post about a laptop.
It's like if Ubuntu's package manager started selling the ability to read reviews of the different packages. Canonical has already built a company around giving away an entire operating system for free.
I read two articles by Doctorow about his decisions about, and involvement around, copyright [0][1]. I didn't pick up on anything relating to how his decision to use CC affects monetization.
So assuming that Doctorow makes a living off of royalties of printed books, as well as speaking engagement fees, I don't think that this model is widely replicable, especially when it comes to currently paywalled content (like from Substack, WSJ, the Economist, NYT, etc), right?
I don't care what strategy they use. However, when a site like HN surfaces content it's a jarring experience when there's content you can't access because of a paywall.
They can keep their paywall and paid content, just get it off HN.
I don't think it's official HN policy to keep paywalled stuff out. And is't it a bit presumptious to assume that everyone on HN would like to avoid paywalled stuff? For example, I appreciate being notified about the existence of high-quality paywalled stuff, even if I don't end up paying to unlock it.
