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139 points exists | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 20:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.573s | 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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macspoofing ◴[23 Jun 25 21:03 UTC] No.44360048[source]▶
>Never build your main business on somebody else's platform.

Yep. It’s a lesson that keeps being re-learned the hard way.

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sneak ◴[23 Jun 25 21:12 UTC] No.44360169[source]▶
I’m sure Uber and DoorDash and Lyft and Tinder and Instagram and WhatsApp are regretting the billions and billions they made doing this.

It’s bad advice.

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macspoofing ◴[23 Jun 25 21:40 UTC] No.44360447[source]▶
>I’m sure Uber and DoorDash and Lyft and Tinder and Instagram and WhatsApp are regretting the billions and billions they made doing this.

I'm not sure which platforms those companies built their businesses on .. are you equating build an app on iOS or Android with building an app that relies on, say, Facebook APIs and only works on Facebook?

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1. sneak ◴[24 Jun 25 06:28 UTC] No.44363369[source]▶
Without the App Store and Play Store, Uber and Instagram and WhatsApp can’t exist.

When Uber came out and for years afterward, there were no location APIs in mobile browsers.

When Instagram came out, there was no way to access the camera or photos in web apps.