[friedger]

Many Blockstack apps are about managing user data. If you want to make profit from this data then you stay where we are at the moment with data capitalism...

[idlewords]

You need money to build and run the apps. Source: I do this for a living.

[jude-]

The operational costs are considerably lower with Blockstack, since the app doesn't host any user state (and in many cases, no state at all). Most apps don't need a database of any kind -- all the business logic runs client-side in the user's web browser.

[tzfld]

Event if operational costs going to be 0, it's not a viable business model to not have profit.

[jude-]

I never claimed otherwise ;)

However, I will claim that the lower operational expenditure (and lower liability for holding user data) makes profitability on-the-whole easier to achieve in Blockstack-powered apps.