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This is why you don't build a business on top of someone else's rug.
by csallen 3y ago
This is why you don't build a business on top of someone else's rug.
- matwood 3y agoBusinesses are almost always built on top of someone else. What you need to make sure of is that your financial interests are aligned.
- User23 3y agoWhich is to say have a contract that your counterparty can’t redefine freely.
- rs999gti 3y agoWas there a contract or SLA for the free Reddit API? If not, then there isn't much to complain about
- User23 3y agoThe terms of service are the default contract. Presumably it has a we-can-screw-you-whenever clause, but sometimes the corporate lawyers screw up and you can actually get them for violating their own ToS.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoBuild your own rug before the rug pull comes.
- djbusby 3y agoIts rugs all the way down!
- satvikpendem 3y agoIndeed, Courtland, and even on IndieHackers you see a lot of stories about platform risk, platforms which indie hackers often use to build a good product but always seem surprised that they got rugged, as if the previous X stories didn't show that it inevitably happens.