Ruby, Internet, and Programming

I attended JP_Stripes Connect 2026 at Information Science College in Yokohama on Saturday, August 1. The theme was “Find out how to monetize in the AI era.” The event had two tracks: main and tech. I’m basically a tech-side guy, but this time I stayed on the main track throughout the event. I couldn’t arrive at the venue in time for the beginning of the keynote session by Daniel Heffernan, but I was still able to learn how frequently prices are changing these days. One well-known online service changed its pricing ten times within a single year. The session explained that pricing is a product（価格はプロダクトである）and encouraged companies to keep iterating on it based on what they learn.