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> Every HN thread. No, not every HN thread, but "Every Google product". This is an entirely valid concern borne out by history. Until Google goes to extraordi
by LeoPanthera 3y ago
> Every HN thread.
No, not every HN thread, but "Every Google product".
This is an entirely valid concern borne out by history. Until Google goes to extraordinary measures to prove that it will be unusually long-lived, you should assume that it will be dead in a few years.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
- endisneigh 3y agoby your logic we should go into every Show HN and say their project will be dead. historically most projects and companies die too after a few years. but obviously that wouldn't be helpful for discussion or particularly insightful to spam, either.
- olyjohn 3y agoMost people aren't affected by those vaproware products. Most people are tied into Google one way or another, and changes they make can affect everybody.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> we should go into every Show HN and say their project will be dead It would be totally fair to ask an upstart DocuSign competitor about their wind-down process. The fact that I’m more confident they will have thought that through is the problem.
- hbn 3y agoShow HN threads don't repeatedly come from the same guy popping in with his unlimited amounts of money that he used to make yet another side project that some people will use for a few years while he gathers your data then decides to kill because it wasn't an immediate smashing success, or he wanted to redo it cause the other one was old.
- ixwt 3y agoI would agree with you, if every Show HN was from a single massive company that is a central point of failure.