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Why isn't vibe coding creating more shareware?
Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, shareware was common - but now that almost anyone can vibe code software, why aren't we seeing more shareware?
- codingdave 6mo agoWe do see it - patreon, buymeacoffee, donations of various kinds. Games with microtransactions. Shareware has just evolved.
- apothegm 6mo agoThats not really what shareware was, tho.
- bediger4000 6mo agoAgreed but is there more of it? A virtual tsunami of it?
- CqtGLRGcukpy 6mo agoI think society has evolved to the point where people want to make as much money as possible, so instead of shareware the person creating it charges money.
- apothegm 6mo agoShareware kind of gave way to OSS. Software is both shared and installed very differently from when people passed around cloned floppies or even DVDs.
- jaggs 6mo agoI think people don't understand what shareware is any more.
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