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Meta (Facebook/Instagram) must have not taken the Twitter route during their mass layoffs. You cut non-essential folks firstly and critical operational personnel lastly.
Will you people ever learn.
Hopefully not their entire product. The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another, but I think the most important part is that if you do use another company, make sure you're fine if they disappear one day.
The last time Facebook made major changes (ostensibly as a response to the Cambridge Analytica stuff, but that was just an excuse) a bunch of people got burned.
My company did too but we always kept ourselves in a place where if it vanished we'd be - at worst - inconvenienced.
This approach came because early on I was burned by Twitter changes that were more impactful.
Most recent Twitter changes prove that even paying for access provides no guarantees.
Instagram’s API tokens constantly expire for me regardless of whether they’re supposed to be “long-lived” or not. They last like 90 days which is super annoying.
> Many companies and tools are built on and rely on this API for their product & daily operations. Hopefully not their entire product. The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another, but I think the most important part is that if you do use another company, make sure you're fine if they disappear one day. The last time Facebook made major changes (ostensibly as a response to the Cambridge Analytica…
> Many companies and tools are built on and rely on this API for their product & daily operations. Hopefully not their entire product. The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another, but I think the most important part is that if you do use another company, make sure you're fine if they disappear one day. The last time Facebook made major changes (ostensibly as a response to the Cambridge Analytica…
this is easy to say as a comment on HN but unavoidable to a large degree for businesses in the marketing and social media space.
> Many companies and tools are built on and rely on this API for their product & daily operations. Hopefully not their entire product. The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another, but I think the most important part is that if you do use another company, make sure you're fine if they disappear one day. The last time Facebook made major changes (ostensibly as a response to the Cambridge Analytica…
this is easy to say as a comment on HN but unavoidable to a large degree for businesses in the marketing and social media space.
I did cage it by saying make sure your whole company doesn't collapse if one API gets shut down.
Meta (Facebook/Instagram) must have not taken the Twitter route during their mass layoffs. You cut non-essential folks firstly and critical operational personnel lastly.
> Many companies and tools are built on and rely on this API for their product & daily operations. Hopefully not their entire product. The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another, but I think the most important part is that if you do use another company, make sure you're fine if they disappear one day. The last time Facebook made major changes (ostensibly as a response to the Cambridge Analytica…
this is easy to say as a comment on HN but unavoidable to a large degree for businesses in the marketing and social media space.
> Many companies and tools are built on and rely on this API for their product & daily operations. Hopefully not their entire product. The first rule is don't build your company on the back of another, but I think the most important part is that if you do use another company, make sure you're fine if they disappear one day. The last time Facebook made major changes (ostensibly as a response to the Cambridge Analytica…
this is easy to say as a comment on HN but unavoidable to a large degree for businesses in the marketing and social media space.
"Free market for thee, but not for me" is not a strong argument in any context.