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isn't the whole lets make a platform kinda obvious...is that really what you were thinking(or not thinking) at the time or is it just a PR spun story to get cov

by vaksel 16y ago

isn't the whole lets make a platform kinda obvious...is that really what you were thinking(or not thinking) at the time or is it just a PR spun story to get coverage. it's like the Goog guys designing Google just so they could better find their own stuff, only to realize that other people might like to use it too I mean, even in the story you are talking about mass producing the hardware, when you were supposedly just doing the show

justin 16y ago
Yeah, I think it was pretty obvious, which is why in retrospect it seems stupid that we weren't pursuing it in the beginning. But I distinctly remember that after launch we debated which direction we should go (options included becoming a live (or not live) video cdn, the live platform, or trying to spin off multiple shows that we produced ourselves). We were talking about mass hardware production to support shows that we directly produced or contracted. To be honest, I wish that I was able to go back and tweak our execution: if the Justin.tv show was just a stunt, I would have had a platform ready to go when we launched it instead of waiting six months to build it!!