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The musicaly people were already veterans in Silicon Valley tech scene (not young under silicon valley standard & with years of working experience). They raise
by wenbin 6y ago
The musicaly people were already veterans in Silicon Valley tech scene (not young under silicon valley standard & with years of working experience).
They raised money to build education product with short videos in it.
The education product was not doing well. So they cut everything and kept the short video part.
Sounds familiar?
YouTube was initially a dating website with videos. Then they cut the dating part and kept videos.
Instagram was initially a checkin app with photos. Then they cut the checkin part and kept photos.
- jehlakj 6y agoFor a second I thought you were going to mention vine.
- dilyevsky 6y agoWith vine twitter went one step further and got rid of video part too
- egypturnash 6y agoFlickr: initially an image management/sharing tool for a 2d online game. Cut the game, kept the image sharing. Slack: initially an internal communication tool for another incarnation of the same game. Cut the game, kept the chat. (An incarnation of this game did briefly exist between these two, but only lasted about a year.)
- strombofulous 6y agoWhat was the game called?
- ZeljkoS 6y agoFascinating! For curious, here are more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield#Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield#Career
- njj 6y agohttps://www.sitepoint.com/slack-story-son-glitch/ https://www.sitepoint.com/slack-story-son-glitch/
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