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It's still very relevant because if it was possible to provide a billion-user scale service with 50 engineers with 2015 tech, then it's an indicator to others t
by PeterisP 4y ago
It's still very relevant because if it was possible to provide a billion-user scale service with 50 engineers with 2015 tech, then it's an indicator to others that it is possible to do the same today.
- threeseed 4y agoYou can do this today with 1 engineer and a cloud provider. It's pretty trivial these days. The hard part is making this a successful business. Because the minute you try and monetise it with advertising you will quickly find out that building a competitive ad platform is where the real challenge is.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago> You can do this today with 1 engineer and a cloud provider. It's pretty trivial these days No, you can't. If it really is trivial today, it was in 2015: cloud providers already existed, smartphones already existed, programming tools were already more than mature, anybody could run a few instances of ejabberd and build an app to talk to them. WhatsApp image upload used a simple PHP page... It wasn't exactly rocket science, it was simply very well executed.
- bsaul 4y agoyou would be surprised by how much work an e2e chat application with the quality of whatsapp requires. Doing a crappy chat app, yes sure that's easy. But one that works as reliably, with the general performance of whatsapp ? Even with today's tech, that's super hard.