A few years ago, I started a web hosting business, not because I wanted to get rich and dominate any particular marketplace but because I wanted to create something different and facilitate good developers doing good work. There have always been "bottom-dollar-chasers" - companies so eager for your business that they'll give you more than you could possibly use hoping that you won't notice what's missing.
I wish I could make people understand what I'm all about. I wish I could help people realize the value of community support, personal attention and benefiting open-source initiatives. Instead, people seem to pass over these as line items and fly into the blinking "buy now for next to nothing" lights. Is my expertise really not worth an extra $.20 per day? What do I have to do to help people understand where I'm coming from?/ Would showing my breasts help? Sadly, it probably would. But for now I'll just stand by my original mission and hope people catch on.
I'm becoming the Janeane Garafolo of web hosting providers. Not just the old Janeane Garafolo - the one with insight and values that resonated with people enough to generate a loyal following. I'm becoming the new, bitter, whiney Janeane Garafolo: so fed up with being drowned out by the vapid standards of value and substance that I have nothing left to say but "don't you people get it?!"
Pardon my rant.