I'm not sure you're allowed to call that a pivot.
Famo.us pivots, fires 20 employees
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#43"micro-app", a landing page you have to download from an app store. What a stupid idea.
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#44Obligatory Jared Dunn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vfXoUNDYA
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#45> What makes our product offering unique is that our apps can be built without coding Oooh... that's going to be a tough argument to sell to people.
Sounds not hard to sell to the technically-unsavvy at all. Their new product actually seems much smarter than the old.
Unfortunately it does sound an easier sell, I hear the frustrated screams of future developers being birthed.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think that essentially their pitch was that they would become the development platform for building apps. If they had considerably grown the number of apps on their platform, and gotten lots of positive developer buzz, they would have easily gotten more funding, even if they weren't making any money yet. The problem, though, is that building a new platform is really, really, really hard, and they didn't succeed. On…
> Perhaps more importantly, Apple and Google aren't particularly interested in cross-platform technology either. Ah, the problem with generalizations about large companies. http://flutter.io/ , by Google.
The fact that flutter exists doesn't really change my view that I don't believe that Google is pushing it. Flutter to me seems much more of a "Hey, let's get some brilliant people at Google on a fun, hard project" than something Google sees as the future.
I agree, though, that Google has somewhat more of an incentive to build stuff cross platform than Apple does. Google wants you to access their services from any device, while Apple makes almost all their money from the devices themselves.
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#47Hype to usefulness ratio of 1000:1
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#48Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted away from its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It’s now refocused on commercializing the idea of powerful mobile web apps with a content management system for branded marketing apps. Yikes. If ever I wanted a paragraph printed on a poster to scare me into working ha…
Maybe their next pivot will be to print-on-demand motivational posters.
or a platform for 3D-rendering of motivational posters driven by the information in the CMS
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#49Famo.us’ 15 minutes of open source fame have come to an end. JavaScript rendering engine Famo.us has pivoted away from its hardcore open sourced engineering platform which had raised over $31 million. It’s now refocused on commercializing the idea of powerful mobile web apps with a content management system for branded marketing apps. Yikes. If ever I wanted a paragraph printed on a poster to scare me into working ha…
I would be wary of assuming the problem was that they didn't work hard enough.
True, but that's generally one thing you can truly control about your work. "Hard enough" could be replace by "smart enough" or a handful of other terms.