Rent seeking behavior always arrives. Make a big site, make millions off advertising, other people use your API for their own apps. Now charge them unreasonable rent. Price out the little guys (also competition for your own app). Anyone who wants it bad enough will pay, if they don't, then your app gets more users because it's the only game in town.
Don't ever let a capitalist frame success as work on their part. It comes from two places, exploiting labor and rent-seeking behavior (which also exploits labor). That is how you become wealthy. It's not being smart, it's not working hard, it's not taking risks, it's not even being lucky. It's convincing a bunch of poorer people to work for you while you siphon their excess labor and/or it's owning property and renting it. In this case it's renting intellectual property.
Rent seeking behavior always arrives. Make a big site, make millions off advertising, other people use your API for their own apps. Now charge them unreasonable rent. Price out the little guys (also competition for your own app). Anyone who wants it bad enough will pay, if they don't, then your app gets more users because it's the only game in town.
Don't ever let a capitalist frame success as work on their part. It comes from two places, exploiting labor and rent-seeking behavior (which also exploits labor). That is how you become wealthy. It's not being smart, it's not working hard, it's not taking risks, it's not even being lucky. It's convincing a bunch of poorer people to work for you while you siphon their excess labor and/or it's owning property and renting it. In this case it's renting intellectual property.