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Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost

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139 points exists | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 20:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.369s | source
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colesantiago ◴[23 Jun 25 20:46 UTC] No.44359902[source]▶
Repeat after me and frame this.

Never build your main business on somebody else's platform.

Always assume that you will get shutdown / rugged when you do so.

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1. immibis ◴[23 Jun 25 21:11 UTC] No.44360162[source]▶
Unless you're prepared for the business to last an unknown limited amount of time.

Pretty much every business is built on shaky foundations. If you never built business on shaky foundations, you'd never do anything at all. You needed an IBM-compatible PC to use Windows! You need a web browser to use Hacker News. Y Combinator is only meaningful as long as dollars are worth something.

If you make a business that runs on IBM PCs, make a few billion dollars, then 10 years later IBM rugpulls the PC line and sues everyone who copied it... was there really a "lesson" that needed "learning" or did you simply succeed at business and make a few billion dollars?