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Yea, but, in addition, Twitch has a very expensive business to run. Video is orders of magnitude more data than pictures and audio which are itself magnitudes a
by jmholla 2y ago
Yea, but, in addition, Twitch has a very expensive business to run. Video is orders of magnitude more data than pictures and audio which are itself magnitudes above text. The costs in your example are wildly different.
And the culture. Your examples are from the 2000s. The culture of the Internet back then was vastly different than it is today.
> A skilled programmer could probably bang out a viable competitor in a week, and raise funds just as fast if the AWS bill became significant.
I disagree. Where is this magic funds button? You're gonna need quite the pitch to get an investor to invest LOTS of money going up against Amazon (edit: and Google!).
- mattmaroon 2y agoIt's been awhile since I was in that world, but I have to imagine that if you have a site whose traffic is growing at a good rate, you don't need to pitch that many investors. Some seed funding could get you enough runway to pay the AWS bills. You very rarely hear of the startup who ran out of money because they had too much traffic.