💭 YouTube has earned its crown
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!https://world.hey.com/dhh/youtube-has-earned-its-crown-48f12ccc

Date: August 7, 2025

Image: YouTube has earned its crown — I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new executive, or face a three-day weekend. The company seems institutionally incapable of standing behind the majority of the products they launch for longer than a KPI cycle. But when the company does decide that something is pivotal to the bu... <https://world.hey.com/dhh/avatar-fb368b1ee9b185dc2a09b03eabdb61678dd55244> YouTube has earned its crown I often give Google a lot of shit for shutting down services whenever they're bored, hire a new executive, or face a three-day weekend. The company seems institutionally incapable of standing behin... world.hey.com

I wonder how much of killed-by-google <https://killedbygoogle.com/> is due to is 20 percent time <https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/787>. Allowing engineers to follow a passion project turns into a real product that doesn’t have full backing and support of the company.

similar to DHH as much as I am hurt by reader and all of their privacy BS that comes from ad based revenue I appreciate YouTube and them supporting all of the creators on it. Giving a platform for small creators the ability to sustain themselves and reach a larch audience without big coorporate rules.

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