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> All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this. Not oblivious. Read the post by Apollo developer at https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/1
by codetrotter 3y ago
> All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this.
Not oblivious. Read the post by Apollo developer at https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
Relevant excerpt:
> Will you build a competitor? Move to one of the existing alternatives?
> I've received so many messages of kind people offering to work with me to build a competitor to Reddit, and while I'm very flattered, that's not something I'm interested in doing. I'm a product guy, I like building fun apps for people to use, and I'm just not personally interested in something more managerial.
> These last several months have also been incredibly exhausting and mentally draining, I don't have it in me to engage in something so enormous.
- Solvency 3y agoThis strikes me as weird. He could literally call up any VC firm in the world right now and tell them he'll point his endpoints to a new backend if they give him some money. He doesn't even have to be involved in that part of the business. Just let them figure it out (with their own choice team) and he'll re-rig the app to it.
- rcxdude 3y agoThis is still an pretty substantial amount of effort, and a lot of risk. I really don't blame anyone for not doing this, especially if they also have another successful business that they are running already.