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Do you think a project, which absolutely requires participation (or at least en acquiesce the existence of this platform), is going to stick around? Do you thin
by tomlin 5y ago
Do you think a project, which absolutely requires participation (or at least en acquiesce the existence of this platform), is going to stick around? Do you think Wix is going to be cool with a system built around pulling customers away? If so, why? Cause I read the site and I don't read how that huge problem is melted away.
- post-it 5y agoSome things are worth doing even if they're hard.
- tomlin 5y agoA lot of things are - but this requires active participation of competitors. Imagine starting a company that allows users to identify homes they like, and then an entire apparatus kicks in to kick the current people out of the house, cancel all of the bills, transfer everything to you, all the while - no one complaining, filing a lawsuit, never calling the police while they are being evicted. That's essentially what this is. How are you going to get Google to be okay that you're transferring everything from them, to Amazon, through an API connection that 100% would violate any modern TOS? I just don't get you, dude.
- post-it 5y agoWith active participation of competitors, it would be easy. They won't like it and that's why it's hard. > That's essentially what this is. No.
- MarcelOlsz 5y agoI think it's a great idea if its executed well. Don't see anything wrong with the OP, I'd use it if it was fleshed out. For example if I wanted to migrate from firebase to some other service, this would be valuable.
- tomlin 5y agoSo you think that Google would go through all the trouble of preventing screen-scraping on all of their platforms, but wouldn't prevent activity on their APIs coming from transfer.hotswap.com? Cool. I just wanted to absorb your sense of reality.