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I could write Spotify in like a weekend or two tops! I don't see the need for all that dead weight. Personally, I don't like coding mobile apps, so idk maybe hi

I could write Spotify in like a weekend or two tops! I don't see the need for all that dead weight. Personally, I don't like coding mobile apps, so idk maybe hire like 2 people (1 Android and 1 iOS) dev for that. I'll do the backend. Easy savings really.

sumtechguy 3y ago
sounds like you have a plan! go for it!
pcthrowaway 3y ago
See also "I could rewrite curl": https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/
ReptileMan 3y ago
I think you are right in a way. The hard part of spotify is getting the deals and the labels and the users. It is not a technology marvel.
- zimpenfish 3y ago
  > The hard part of spotify is getting the deals and the labels and the users. Having worked for a (now defunct) company that was trying to get labels onboard, this is exactly correct. They had 3 or 4 people (plus the founders) who mostly spent all day chasing up music industry contacts and lawyers trying to get them into conversations and persuading them to license their content. And having had to deal with CWRs and ERNs, that's also a nightmare of hideous proportions you have to deal with for streaming services.
dizzy3gg 3y ago
This a play on the classic Dropbox/rsync comment?
- dna_polymerase 3y ago
  Exactly!
happytoexplain 3y ago
This sounds like sarcasm, but it's missing the /s and the context of the parent post doesn't make sense for it to be sarcastic.
nonameiguess 3y ago
I can't even tell if this is parody. I, too, can write an app in a weekend that streams nothing because I own no servers, no disks, and have no licensing agreements with rights holders allowing me to host and serve any of the content they own. Surely, writing the app is all there is to this business.
- dna_polymerase 3y ago
  It probably says a lot about tech people if my comment, that obviously is wrong on every level, is taken this seriously. :)
  - fragmede 3y ago
    Poe's law strikes again!

sumtechguy 3y ago

sounds like you have a plan! go for it!

pcthrowaway 3y ago

See also "I could rewrite curl": https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl/

ReptileMan 3y ago

I think you are right in a way. The hard part of spotify is getting the deals and the labels and the users. It is not a technology marvel.

zimpenfish 3y ago
> The hard part of spotify is getting the deals and the labels and the users. Having worked for a (now defunct) company that was trying to get labels onboard, this is exactly correct. They had 3 or 4 people (plus the founders) who mostly spent all day chasing up music industry contacts and lawyers trying to get them into conversations and persuading them to license their content. And having had to deal with CWRs and ERNs, that's also a nightmare of hideous proportions you have to deal with for streaming services.

dizzy3gg 3y ago

This a play on the classic Dropbox/rsync comment?

dna_polymerase 3y ago
Exactly!

happytoexplain 3y ago

This sounds like sarcasm, but it's missing the /s and the context of the parent post doesn't make sense for it to be sarcastic.

nonameiguess 3y ago

I can't even tell if this is parody. I, too, can write an app in a weekend that streams nothing because I own no servers, no disks, and have no licensing agreements with rights holders allowing me to host and serve any of the content they own. Surely, writing the app is all there is to this business.

dna_polymerase 3y ago
It probably says a lot about tech people if my comment, that obviously is wrong on every level, is taken this seriously. :)
- fragmede 3y ago
  Poe's law strikes again!