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>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|8 months ago

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.

macspoofing|8 months ago

>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?