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Don't build soley on someone else's technology (witness Flock / Firefox)
- mattculbreth 20y agoThis is a good thing to note. You can run into problems when: 1. You are using somebody else for infrastructure and that infrastructure changes/goes away/is suddenly more expensive. Witness Amazon AWS (which we're using), Google Maps, etc. 2. Your benefactor suddenly decides to compete with you. That happened to a company named Outlooksoft earlier last year when Microsoft decided to get into the budgeting and planning business. Outlooksoft had based their product 100% on a Microsoft infrastructure. They had to scramble to add support for other databases and G/Ls.
- zaidf 20y agoThat is why when we were planning iJigg it sounded really cool if we could wrap it around Facebook and its API. Even though in short-term it would be good, in long-term a) we'd be typecasted as a facebook feature and b) always be at the peril of a large corporation. Doing it without dependance on other corporations is tougher IMO but the only option if you don't want you business to depend on facebook's press releases. -Zaid
- joshwa 20y agoSee also Alexa/Alexaholic: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7542 http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7542