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This is bar none the saddest comment I have read on HN in recent memory. Do that many of us feel that helpless and useless? Almost every tech we use was started
by pubstik 6y ago
This is bar none the saddest comment I have read on HN in recent memory. Do that many of us feel that helpless and useless? Almost every tech we use was started by a single talented and/or dedicated person with the support of a small group of similar people.
This is that small group of similar people, and you may be that person.
We exist. Change is real. Do something.
- switch11 6y agoIts not that easy We are a small startup and we were outpacing 2 of the 4 giants They resorted to outright illegal stuff manipulation of search engine results not delivering our emails when it was to their email service hacking attacks click fraud on our ads * The REAL problem is not that they have monopoly status and cannot be outpaced The real problem is that they abuse their monopoly position, do illegal things, and get away with it Now we are building both a platform and our own search engine Consider the absurdity of that Instead of just building a better product (which we had) and being able to win and/or compete based on that We have to literally build our own entire ecosystem How many startups can do that? Should every tech company that happens to be competing against the big 4 monopolies be expected to do that