Yes, but hotmail, gmail, gdocs, skype, firefox, delicious, flickr et al did from word go. Once you started, you never stopped. By all accounts youtube was lucky

Yes, but hotmail, gmail, gdocs, skype, firefox, delicious, flickr et al did from word go. Once you started, you never stopped. By all accounts youtube was lucky, got momentum at the right time and struck it rich. It could have been many of the other similar sites in the same position. I'm not saying its easy to develop something a user would jump off a cliff for, more the contrary. People say it like it's easy, iv'e been doing my own startups for 5+ years now and still don't have one, but i'm working on it just like everyone else here I suppose!