Before You Build Think

I dunno maybe 8 years ago I was running a music sharing service replete with lyrics and album covers from my 13" MacBook on Facebook.

Users could share their fav songs and they would show up on their profiles their friends could listen to their playlists. It was cool.

A static IP a domain a streaming server running on a pathetic MacBook. In my apt in Oregon.

Hmm. But Facebook made it impossible to drive anyone to it because they were courting Spotify.

Hmmmm. Makes you wonder sometimes what's going on in tech.

But before that, I built a ddg, that stripped tracking links from Google searches and I had ten million hits pee month before the govt shut my data center down.

Hmmmm. Makes you wonder what's going on in tech.

This same data center was running another another hobby project where before https was in vogue, I offered ssh connection to a VPN proxy to surf the web, cvia a browser plugin.

Hmmmm. Makes you wonder when you start getting creepy calls from the govt and your data center gets shut down again.

Then I had an app on the app store that apple refused to approve unless I removed iCloud from it.

The review rejection call after 6 most of development went like this:

"We don't want people storing files in iCloud" Soon after it was one of the most popular utulities on the Mac app store outside the US.

Then apple introduced iCloud files. Hmmm.

Are you getting the same feeling I am?