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I think this is the giant internet trick... do anything to scale, then when you reach critical mass (or someone wants OKRs on their status report), pull out the
by m463 2y ago
I think this is the giant internet trick... do anything to scale, then when you reach critical mass (or someone wants OKRs on their status report), pull out the rug.
- WoodenChair 2y agoTo be fair there wasn’t much scale. We’re talking about an app that sold 467 copies over its 10 year span. But it was an app I really liked, the people who paid for it really liked, and just drove traffic to Yelp, so they should’ve liked too. It was also a nice portfolio piece for me.
- m463 2y agolol, I was talking about yelp. I'm pretty sure when they made the API, it was actually laying out the rug. Let everyone build on top of it.
- 20after4 2y agoYeah, given the numbers it doesn't make sense for Yelp to kill it. It's not like a few hundred api calls are costing yelp any significant amount of money.
- pino82 2y agoI'd say, given the numbers it doesn't make sense for Yelp to bother. Just stop it and send the kids an email.
- gunapologist99 2y agoWow. less than 47 copies per year on average.. Yelp really cut off their nose to spite their face there. Even leaving out that it was with only a grotesquely unprofessional four day notice, this is ridiculous. It's not like Yelp was suffering a DDoS from all of those API calls.
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