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How Google helped us fail early, fail fast

• aravindet 12y ago
  Building your business on top of someone else’s platform seems like a risky thing to do. But then again, everyone’s basically building apps for walled gardens nowadays.
  • gjsriv 12y ago
    Yes, but google did surprise the world by moving away from xmpp.
• gjsriv 12y ago
  amalantony: are you a part of the team? It is brave of the team to have opensourced the entire code-base under AGPL. Success to you guys.
  • amalantony06 12y ago
    Yes, I am part of the team. Thanks!
• kendrickjs 12y ago
  Nice story... I think it was a smart move to target tech communities. I was on your homepage. Looks like you guys also link the chat on web with irc chat. These two should play well together.