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The french product was called Mindie, the start of endless short videos with music, the reels, and the copycat was chinese musical.ly (later bought up by Byteda
by Flatterer3544 9mo ago
The french product was called Mindie, the start of endless short videos with music, the reels, and the copycat was chinese musical.ly (later bought up by Bytedance).
Mindie failed because they got attacked by copyright claims by the big US tech, which obviously the chinese copycat was immune to, since China.
- xnx 9mo agoInteresting. I wonder if any of the Musical.ly creators ever saw Mindie. https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/from-a-failing-product-to-a-successful-video-sharing-app-mindie-raises-1-2-million/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/from-a-failing-product-to-...
- throw4r56u3e 9mo agoThis sounds like revisionist history.