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Not all web-apps are leisure oriented. Plenty of them are B2B and plenty of them are giving a tangible return on time invested to the users.

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You mean software as service kind of stuff? Would you care to provide some examples?

Dating sites (b2c), dropbox (both b2b and b2c), tarsnap (b2b), drupal, wordpress, ebay and so on, there must be thousands of examples.

Freshbooks (indispensable to me), Mailchimp, Outright.com, Basecamp and Backpack. And those are just the ones I use for my day to day business.

FWIW, Tarsnap is both b2b and b2c. My best guess from eyeballing email addresses and talking to some Tarsnap users is that businesses are only 20% of Tarsnap users, although they account for about 80% of the total usage.

That's a real surprise to me! (was it to you?)

The way tarsnap is marketed I'd never ever expected it to be b2c, most private individuals I know outside of computing would have a very hard time understanding what it's all about without a lot of explanation. That's really interesting.

I didn't say that the private individuals who use Tarsnap are outside of computing. I know a lot of unix geeks. :-)

Ah right, of course, why didn't I think of that angle. That should have been obvious. To my defence I'll say I wrote that before my morning tea while on a holiday. Will try harder next time.

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