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The real question is can you get in, win, and get out before any of that matters. If you 'rode the facebook apps' wave you probably made decent money unless yo
by hayksaakian 11y ago
The real question is can you get in, win, and get out before any of that matters.
If you 'rode the facebook apps' wave you probably made decent money unless you stayed in too long.
Another strategy is to build an integration to messenger to get exposure for your totally independant app.
For example If i made some pizza ordering ai, i could hook it up to messenger as an additional channel.
- state 11y agoThe 'real' question is how can we build an alternative platform that doesn't require you to try to 'win' by effectively screwing the people who actually use the stuff you build.
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- nfoz 11y agoI think that problem has been unsolved for ~500 years? More?
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAfter someone comes up with an answer to that let's backport it to the very concept of the cloud.
- debacle 11y agoThe answer is "Users actually pay for shit." Good luck with that.
- reitanqild 11y agosandstorm.io has some very interesting ideas, and have already implemented a usable base: * click-to-provision web apps * small fees on hosted version, full open source version available * developer friendly * open also for commercial software
- Johnie 11y agoIf you look at some of the successful startups that started on a platform, this is what they did. Example: Instagram - used Facebook for viral distribution and eventually eclipsed Facebook Imgur - built image hosting for Reddit and now has eclipsed Reddit.
- pionar 11y ago> Instagram - used Facebook for viral distribution and eventually eclipsed Facebook Imgur - built image hosting for Reddit and now has eclipsed Reddit. Uh, not quite. Imgur would still die if Reddit went away. Same for Instagram. If Twitter and FB went away, it'd die.
- galistoca 11y agoImgur might, but I doubt Instagram will die if FB and Twitter went away.
- djsumdog 11y agoInstagram is owned by Facebook, so it won't die unless they kill it.
- Johnie 11y agoImgur has more traffic than Reddit: http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/26/imgur-traffic-milestone-100m-uniques/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/26/imgur-traffic-milestone-10...
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- brazzledazzle 11y agoI'm curious, so does that mean imgur has more active users now?
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- gue5t 11y agoThere's a word for people who only care about their own quality of life, and not that of those around them: "assholes". Don't be an asshole, and don't advocate "fuck you got mine" practices like these. Let's work to dismantle abusive systems like Facebook.
- galistoca 11y agoThere's also a word for people who don't try to understand what someone else is trying to say and just tries to impose his own idea to everyone else by calling them names: "assholes".
- __abc 11y agoI don't think their proposed approach makes them an asshole. No need for promoting absolutism.
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- sbov 11y agoSo you agree with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482075 but also just felt like calling the parent an asshole?
- gue5t 11y agoYes!
- robertfw 11y ago"fuck you got mine" pretty much sums up capitalism as we know it today. Don't hold your breath for change
- frogpelt 11y agoNot even close. Very few people/companies get rich by not caring about their users or customers. Most "greedy" corporations are actually improving the lives of their users or customers at least from the customers' perspective.
- oblio 11y agoSo, basically, a Ponzi scheme :)