Platform teams: the eternal debate
Jan 27, 2025
As a CTO, one of the unsolved challenges is whether to have a platform team or not. This article explores the downside of building platform teams.
I think the article is a little bit biased and presents only one way of implementing platform teams. I still believe that platform teams are a net-positive, but only when they use golden paths to achieve their goals.
Web Monetization
A web3 way of accepting payments on the internet. Looks pretty cool, and could be a good way to counter the SaaS models of medium and substack. As usual, though, the challenge would be for adoption to go mainstream.
Doc Publication
There is a revival of publications. Individuals join and curate and write content. And you, instead of letting an algorithm determine what you read, subscribe to those publications. In this case, the people of UX collective decide to own their own publication and monetize it with Web Monetization, a web3 way to accept micropayments. I hope fika allows people to create such beautiful publications.