Most app-making is just being extremely disciplined in deciding what you’re going to reinvent.
There are proven ways to get 85% push notification approval, how to sort of a list of suggested people, and how to share content to iMessage vs. Instagram Stories vs. X
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Silicon Valley enterprise startups often focus on the needs of other mid-stage tech companies as customers, rather than the large enterprises that make up much of the business world by revenue.
Social networks aren’t just the interface, or the algorithm, they’re also about the people in them. When I wrote “The Network’s the Thing” I meant it; the graph is inextricable from the identity of a social media service. Change the inputs of such a system and you change the system itself.