Re:Renewing Medium’s focus
by mgiannopoulos on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:01PM
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Well they did that by basically limiting what the user can do. The editing options were extremely limited. There was also no customisation until recently. They built a basic-function responsive blog platform. How is that hard?
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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus
by giovannibajo1 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:11PM
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It's very hard to tell people to use your software that has 1/100th of features of the incumbents but it's done better. Apple did it with iPhone for instance, but normally startups die trying.
That's because the iPhone didn't have 1/100 the features of competitors -- it had 80/100 of the features, but focused on the 80% that mattered (no "fm radio" or "mobile flash" for example).
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus
by mgiannopoulos on Thursday January 05, 2017 @02:42AM
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Imho that was mostly achieved by marketing , not technical innovation (which they claim)
Also helps a lot with the amount of connections Ev Williams and co have. I would guess that having all the right connections was a huge part of Medium's success, especially really early on. With enough connections you can grow (almost) any half-decent service.