3 ms·

In the year of our lord 2023, people are still launching immature products with "we built a clone of a tiny subset of Twitter" as their use case? Come on. Twitt

In the year of our lord 2023, people are still launching immature products with "we built a clone of a tiny subset of Twitter" as their use case? Come on. Twitter is huge because they have to support a huge number of use cases. Using this proprietary framework won't magically make complex use cases go away.

DoesntMatter22 3y ago
"We recreated a service from 2007 and it's so much faster!"
- nathanmarz 3y ago
  As we mentioned in the article, Instagram just spent ~25 person-years building Threads which is a barebones clone of Twitter. Not only did we build our instance 30x faster than that, we have way more features like federation, hashtag follows, polls, DMs, global timelines, and more. And Instagram didn't start from scratch as Instagram/Meta already had infrastructure powering similar products. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/29/meta-threads-mark-zuckerberg-rival-twitter-musk/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/29/meta-th...
  - DoesntMatter22 3y ago
    You said this in another post. > That's why we're comparing it to the cost of Twitter's original consumer product. Plus, you cloned a preexisting architecture. FB wrote theirs from scratch. Not apples to apples. This is much easier.
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]