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Platform Monetization: Dealing with High Adoption Barriers

• kfk 6y ago
  What about Microsoft enterprise offerigs, oracle, salesforce? To me they also offer platforms, but they tend to mostly sell their own products on those.
  • sameer_singh17 6y ago
    To work out monetization options, we need to use a very specific definition for the term "platform" - https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platforms-are-not-created-equal-f8c8b5100858 https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platfo... Essentially, it is applicable to businesses that create cross-side network effects between developers and users. This includes Salesforce, but wouldn't include businesses that create developer tools or infrastructure for instance.
• anuraj 6y ago
  Very misleading article. No - platforms do not mean app market places. App market places are platforms - but not the other way round. Author is just trying to improve his offline SEO. Not worth Hackernews stature.
  • sameer_singh17 6y ago
    You're referring to the word "platform" as defined by certain academics. I'm referring to the term "platform" as defined by Marc Andreessen and Bill Gates - https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platforms-are-not-created-equal-f8c8b5100858 https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platfo...