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So first of all, Wordpress.com/.org is the premier blogging destination, powering some stupid number of all websites in the world. Medium is the premier platfor
by dchuk 10y ago
So first of all, Wordpress.com/.org is the premier blogging destination, powering some stupid number of all websites in the world. Medium is the premier platform in the Silicon Valley Techno-Bubble.
I'm not saying what they've done is easy by any means, I'm saying that what they've done is not innovative and should be considered so just because they have a lot of users. Clearly a lot of users does not solely make a business successful, as evidenced by their layoff of 1/3 of the company today.
Also, innovation is doing something in a new way, whether by customers or product. And nothing they are doing is by any definition new.
- ctvo 10y agoYou're reaching here with the Wordpress example (.org isn't even applicable to this discussion -- it's an open-source CMS). Wordpress.com is a hosting platform. Just because as a subset of the options you can make a blog (vs. an ecommerce site, a portfolio, a landing page, etc.) doesn't make it Medium's competitor. Visit their homepage. Do you see a content aggregator or something closer to Squarespace?
- morgante 10y agoWordpress is 100% a competitor to Medium. Probably their biggest competitor. Even if you want to restrict to .com, WordPress.com (VIP) competes for many of the same users which Medium has been competing for.