Hiten Shah on X: "Notes on building products people love when software gets cheap" / X
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Notes on building products people love when software gets cheap
I keep thinking about Meta and how ruthless they have been for years about taking mechanics that work somewhere else and making them their own. Stories worked, so they put Stories everywhere. Short form video worked, so they went hard on Reels. Public text worked, so they built Threads. There are plenty more examples. People usually talk about this like Meta has no shame about copying, which is fair enough, but I think there is a much more useful lesson buried in what they have been doing. Meta is a consumer company. Their business depends on understanding what gets people to create,…
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