I don’t understand the basis for your hostility here to charging more money and making a profit, especially given that Hacker News is founded and run by a venture capital firm whose goal is repeatedly that in hundreds of attempts at once. At minimum, Vimeo should have been raising prices by inflation% per year, and I’m pretty sure they weren’t doing that. Better the platform continue and thrive doing what works than founder uselessly on the zero-price pivot shoals like most startups these days. And there’s a sense of cosmic irony that both Vimeo and Dropout are now run by a very small team rather than a large one. Perhaps Vimeo will learn the lesson of Dropout and switch to the boring but effective 100% paying-customers-only model that other successful businesses use. I’m rooting for them.