Mike's Notes
Here are some valuable resources about stuff you may have to deal with one day.
- Enshittification
- Tarpits
- No Investors
- No social media
- No sales, only word-of-mouth
- No ads
- No moats
- Open-source as much as possible
- Ownership by a foundation
- Only SaaS applications that are socially useful
- Built for experienced developer teams
- Open Handbook
Resources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
- https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
- https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
Enshittification
"Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders." - Wikipedia.
Examples
- Google Search
- Amazon
Tarpit
"A tarpit is a service on a computer system (usually a server) that purposely delays incoming connections. The technique was developed as a defense against a computer worm, and the idea is that network abuses such as spamming or broad scanning are less effective, and therefore less attractive, if they take too long. The concept is analogous with a tar pit, in which animals can get bogged down and slowly sink under the surface, like in a swamp." - Wikipedia
Examples
- Nepenthes
- Iocane
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