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Why isn't vibe coding creating more shareware?
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watershawl
4 hours ago
3 comments
codingdave
4 hours ago
We do see it - patreon, buymeacoffee, donations of various kinds. Games with microtransactions. Shareware has just evolved.
apothegm
3 hours ago
Thats not really what shareware was, tho.
bediger4000
2 hours ago
Agreed but is there more of it? A virtual tsunami of it?
CqtGLRGcukpy
3 hours ago
I 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
3 hours ago
Shareware kind of gave way to OSS. Software is both shared and installed very differently from when people passed around cloned floppies or even DVDs.