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Wave is just another boring protocol. Protocols aren't hard. They're not valuable. It's not rocket science. Building something people need is valuable, and get

• ynniv 16y ago
  Wave is just another boring protocol. Protocols aren't hard. They're not valuable. Yes. Agreed. Please don't invent a new one. Building something people need is valuable, and getting people to use it is very valuable. Yes. Agreed. Someone else already did the "boring" work (and has been bug fixing it), so why not build upon that? Grab some code right here: http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/ http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/ You know what users don't want? A Rails app thats "like Facebook but OPEN". Or basically any solution based on scraping or polling, which will never scale. An application of Facebook quality is not a quick hack, and making that app distributed is way more complicated. People are currently using Facebook because Facebook is a good product, and took a lot of effort to get there. There were a number of competitors available to them, which did not catch on. Statistically, any new effort will also fail. So whatever you do, do yourself a favor and pick something that's pretty close to Facebook already, and work your way from there.