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If your company gets deplatformed from iOS + Android app stores, AWS, and Cloudflare, you're screwed.
Modern black markets are filled w/ enough DDoS extortionists to drain all of your money and time. Good luck finding investors as your unusable app's adoption tanks for 12 months
Modern black markets are filled w/ enough DDoS extortionists to drain all of your money and time. Good luck finding investors as your unusable app's adoption tanks for 12 months
No Google also means no reCAPTCHA. Modern black market has good enough ML to break home rolled solutions, and the alternative companies are way higher friction.
In this way, even self-hosting implicitly depends on Big Tech since captchas are a proxy of the AI arms race.
In this way, even self-hosting implicitly depends on Big Tech since captchas are a proxy of the AI arms race.
Startups became cheap to start b/c of
• OSS
• Cloud hosting
• Ecosystem of SaaS tools (payments, analytics, email, SMS, etc) for general tasks
reducing $1M+ dollar endeavors in 2000s to neary free today
Infrastructure deplatforming & app store censorship reverses this
• OSS
• Cloud hosting
• Ecosystem of SaaS tools (payments, analytics, email, SMS, etc) for general tasks
reducing $1M+ dollar endeavors in 2000s to neary free today
Infrastructure deplatforming & app store censorship reverses this
Subtler point there: Specialization in cloud hosting and generalized SaaS reduced startups costs, but it also means we have different talent pools today.
On top of spending more time and $ to do everything, you have massive IT & security overhead that will be harder to hire for.
On top of spending more time and $ to do everything, you have massive IT & security overhead that will be harder to hire for.
