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Facebook... and Spotify, and Twitter. They've all got Clubhouse clones going now. Sometimes I find the state of 'innovation' in large tech companies a little de
by afavour 5y ago
Facebook... and Spotify, and Twitter. They've all got Clubhouse clones going now. Sometimes I find the state of 'innovation' in large tech companies a little depressing...
- croes 5y agoThe big players can only copy or buy up.
- b3kart 5y ago> only That’s a bold statement.
- reaperducer 5y agoOn the surface it is. But I think if you pause and look closely at the state a lot of the big tech firms these days, they're not run by visionaries and innovators any longer. They're run by C-levels trying to appease stockholders, and middle managers trying to appease the C-levels. That's why startups continue to thrive and occasionally outflank the incumbents. There are very few visionary people left in tech these days. Most have died, retired, or gone on to other things. I'd like to see a list of people that HN people think are currently "visionary." I have a few in mind, but I'd like to see what other people think, because I'm sure I've missed a few.
- luckydata 5y agoIn Facebook's case, they are being run by nobody. Never witnessed a more haphazard, disorganized company before working there. Truly frustrating place to work at, ruled by people with no vision and managed through a Kafkaesque system designed to create conflicting incentives for teams supposed to collaborate. I don't miss it at all.
- croes 5y agoEver heard of a hyperbole?
- Navarr 5y agoDiscord, too.
- goodcjw2 5y agoIt's probably true that they cannot resist cloning existing feature that's already working. But to cheer you up, FB is putting lots of efforts (rumor goes 10000 folks) working on AR/VR. That's quite a lot innovation :)
- corobo 5y agoWorking on putting ads in VR by the sounds of it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27532243
- goodcjw2 5y agoYeah, that's the part I don't quite appreciate what FB is doing on VR. They heavily subsidize the hardware, pushed lots of competitors out (e.g. Vive is really struggling), then start selling ads once they got dominant position.
- Bombthecat 5y agoAnd 200 are working on "how to show ads in 3d"
- echelon 5y agoIt's hard to grow as a social media startup now. If you're successful, Zuckerberg and the rest will spend tens of millions cloning you. Only a select few reach escape velocity. Snapchat, TikTok. How do you survive without being trampled by the giants?
- nowherebeen 5y agoYou can't. They can spend 200 engineers to study everything about your product and clone it. And it won't even make a dent in their revenue.
- Firebrand 5y agoYou focus on things people aren’t willing to post on their Facebook feed. Snap and TikTok remain strong despite being copied because it allows people to essentially shitpost without their close friends and family seeing it.
- Apocryphon 5y agoI wonder how VSCO is faring compared to Instagram, which is another similarly "anti-social" network. TikTok has the benefit of being owned by a larger conglomerate, ByteDance. Supposedly Pinterest was in talks to acquire VSCO.