nickforall

I run a ticketing SaaS in the Netherlands.

The biggest promotor here, Mojo, a subsidiary of Live Nation, occassionally requires venues to use Ticketmaster (Live Nation-owned) for events featuring the artists they manage.

The artist is why people buy tickets, and they control that part of the market.

In the US they also own a bunch of venues. They can pressure other independent venues into using Ticketmaster, they own 80% of big venues in the US, so the venue needs the artist, not the other way around.

No independent venue wants to use Ticketmaster, but they have to to book the big names.

The fact I can just run `vercel` on many frontend projects, and it just works without having to think about iam, policies, service accounts, s3 configuration, cloudfront.

Time is money, and sure, once you reach some scale it will be efficient to move stuff to AWS, but for most projects it is not.

I wouldn't get your hopes up too much. It has been illegal in Europe/the Netherlands for years, however it is not enforced at all. Most newspapers don't let you cancel without calling them, having to deal with sales people trying to convince you to keep your subscription.

Yeah, it tries to do that but is not always very good at it. For example with aliases in join and subqueries it struggles sometimes and it doesn't show up.

As a dutchman i beg to differ.

Thank you very much for sharing, we're overwhelmed by all the tweets.