[jackgolding]

Great comment, I can fill in some of your references.

The Essay you were referring to is the brilliant "The Gervais Principle"

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Reforge talks about your cycle - I can't find the exact artcile but you can see it with marketplaces a lot - i.e. Facebook creates APIs for events, 3rd parties build platforms on these APIs, Facebook kills the API access. This is the closest article I could find related to "tactics" https://www.reforge.com/blog/growth-loops

[brezelgoring]

I think the article you refer to is this one: https://www.reforge.com/blog/balancing-user-vs-business

It looks like an interesting read about what this decision looks like from the other side.

Thank you for introducing me to reforge, I know what I'll be doing with tomorrow's downtime now.