Q: Does anyone else find this leaves a bad taste in their mouth?
For anyone who doesn't know, the concept and name comes from the idea of making money selling pickaxes during the gold rush because that was - as the story goes - the best way to make money, rather than the fools hoping to get rich panning for gold. This tool is not only designed for that, and not only literally called that, but it's doing the same to everyone here. It's like an MLM version of selling pickaxes. Not sure whether to laugh or cry that the founders thought the name was a good choice. I guess if I had a question, it would be 'Why would we want to buy this when you're very clearly in for short-term gain at the expense of "suckers"?'
Pickaxe_Staff
Jul 1, 2024A: Hey John. I appreciate the point-of-view. Pickaxe is not a MLM by any definition of the term. We offer infrastructure to set up GPT storefronts. Your end-users pay to use your tools. They do not pay to sell your tools to someone else.
I'm sorry the name Pickaxe leaves a bad taste in your mouth. The idea with the name is twofold: we are a platform to make tools (i.e. pickaxes) to solve specific problems; and secondly we enable our users to sell Pickaxes (tools for people to use).
c-sumo382PLUS
Verified purchaser
How is this even remotely like an MLM? It enables anyone to create and monetize an AI tool, even without coding/development knowledge. Users can use the tool to help them with their specific needs. I am testing it and have created a specific tool in 5 minutes that could really help my audience. I wouldn't get so hung up on the name, and perhaps test it out first before making such an assertion.
johnr123Well... One level is they are selling a tool. The tool they are selling is for the buyers of that tool to sell other tools. How many levels do you count? Is it more than one? Now go and look up multi.
ade0Saying Pickaxe is like an MLM is saying any business that provides structure/software/backbone is a MLM. Shopify allows people to deploy e-commerce stores for products, and they aren't a MLM. Kajabi allows people to deploy an array of marketing tools to run a business and they aren't a MLM.
Yeah, but that's not the same thing is it? Shopify doesn't sell you a tool to sell web sites does it? Never mind, I might as well be talking to a wall. Enjoy the product.
OriajAmilI think I partially agree, in my country, Brazil, the word Pickaxe has a pejorative meaning: it is someone who deceives others by selling something useless or that is found free.
MrStokedPLUSSome of their answers have revealed some shadiness and should justifiably be criticized, but they are not an MLM. For it to be an MLM, you'd have to sell this business opportunity to others who would sell it to others. Just selling tools to others doesn't make it an MLM.