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> It's unfathomable to me how something that has such a monopoly on the domain can have such terrible performance. You’ve answered your own question there, the
by little_hills 6y ago
> It's unfathomable to me how something that has such a monopoly on the domain can have such terrible performance.
You’ve answered your own question there, the keyword being ‘monopoly’.
If there is no competition pushing them to improve performance or site design, it’ll inevitably fall by the wayside until they get around to it or more accurately until somebody can convince a manager/business that they should spend time working on it, which, without using ‘look how much better the competition is’ that’s gonna be a hard sell.
I’m looking at this with broad strokes though, but as a best guess I’d say that’s pretty close.
- kerryoco 6y agoI don't think there's anything monopolistic about Goodreads .. we just convince ourselves of it. But as we can see here, people would be highly willing to try out some competition. It's a lot harder than people give it credit it for as well, I imagine. "why don't they get a recommendation engine already" ... that's the secret sauce of companies like Amazon and Netflix who have a financial interest in every successful recommendation. Goodreads doesn't have a profit model in place afaik to support honing the engine to that degree