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As a curious outsider, I have to ask why are you giving away the recipe to your secret sauce ? I mean, there are several of your competitors such as zencoder ,
by badmash69 16y ago
As a curious outsider, I have to ask why are you giving away the recipe to your secret sauce ? I mean, there are several of your competitors such as zencoder , etc. that could easily copy this idea and implement it . So why would you blog about implementation know-how that made your product cooler and enabled you to command premium pricing ?
- siculars 16y agoI don't really think it matters for a number of reasons. Chief among them being motivation. If you are motivated enough to copy this idea then you would reverse engineer it as soon as you heard what they are doing without knowing exactly how, which is what I did knowing that they were based on nodejs and I know how nodejs handles buffers. Ultimately, if you are a provider of services, these or any other, you will add functionality or run the risk of being eclipsed.
- felixge 16y agoWell, anybody in the video encoding business will know how we did it. It's kind of painfully obvious. So it's not so much spilling the secret sauce. Also, we don't believe individual features themselves will give us a long term advantage. Consistently being a leader of innovation however, will.