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When Facebook was founded there was no Facebook. Now there is a Facebook. When there's a better alternative customers are less likely to try out your new, less
by iudqnolq 3y ago
When Facebook was founded there was no Facebook. Now there is a Facebook.
When there's a better alternative customers are less likely to try out your new, less good idea.
Can you give an example of someone serious using IPFS instead of S3? I don't really get what "all storage worldwide" means.
- megaman821 3y agoExcept there was a Facebook and it was called MySpace. Facebook won because people enjoyed using it better.
- iudqnolq 3y agoyes, but the bar for better was much lower back then. if you released the original Facebook today it would be so obviously so much worse than the competitors it wouldn't get any traction.
- EGreg 3y agoWhen FB was founded there were: MySpace Friendster Whimit - Russians online (LOL) and many other small examples. There was still AOL, MSN, etc. There was a time when they ruled. The only reason that FB, Google and yes Amazon were even able to launch, is because the open permissionless web disrupted AOL, MSN etc. Imagine them allowing Amazon to launch on top of them. They’d cannibalize them just like Amazon cannibalizes sellers.
- oblio 3y agoAll of those had 10% of Facebook's current users, at best, and probably 1% of their spare cash. Scale matters. You seem to be a programmer, you should know that. Quantity has a quality all its own.