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The easy answer to this is to just stop developing for their platform.
by carson 16y ago
The easy answer to this is to just stop developing for their platform.
- hga 16y agoThis HN submission suggests that's exactly what is happening: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681844 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681844
- sabat 16y agoAs with all easy answers, it ain't necessarily that simple. What if you have a startup that's based on the Twitter API? Where do you go? Plurk? Facebook has its own API issues, of course.
- carson 16y agoI think it is that simple. You don't build your startup solely on a free service that someone else has complete control of.
- sabat 16y agoYou don't build your startup solely on a free service that someone else has complete control of. Sound advice. When a lot of these startups were conceived, that wasn't as obvious as it seems now.
- plorkyeran 16y agoThat's been obvious since well before Twitter was created.
- ivanstojic 16y agoPersonally I think I heard the phrase "don't be dependent on other companies' platforms" enough times to feel it in my bones. Some people obviously didn't. On the other hand, that's morally draining - particularly when one works on something that's open source.