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I'm q bit tired of this HEY marketing spin by now. And it's the same old story, over and over. If you build on a platform, be prepared to get fucked over anyti
by the_gipsy 6y ago
I'm q bit tired of this HEY marketing spin by now. And it's the same old story, over and over.
If you build on a platform, be prepared to get fucked over anytime, period. Otherwise build on a protocol, that is open, and will prevail.
- neilalexander 6y agoThat's very idealist in nature but you still have to go to where your users are if you expect to have any users. There are lots of iPhone users in the world.
- satyrnein 6y agoThere's no way to entirely avoid platform risk, unless you're running your app off the grid, on a boat in international waters, using your own hardware, getting online via multiple satellite providers, and taking payments only via Bitcoin. Otherwise, it's about trying to decide what risks are reasonable, and doing what little you can to influence each platform's behavior toward you, which is what Basecamp is doing.
- dcwca 6y agoWeb apps are pretty risk free in this sense. Nobody controls the web.
- ryanbrunner 6y agoSure, but the platforms can still go out of their way to make it infeasible to build on the web - There's no way that Hey could have been a web app on iOS since Safari refuses to support a lot of functionality that would bring web apps to parity with native ones.