Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor?

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by systemvoltage on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:43AM (#29474731)

This is the least informative hyperbole I've read on HN. It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors, everything is unlimited, cannot be replicated, forget about it. Let's accept defeat.

I thought HN was the opposite of this - finding ways to upend fat companies from occupying monopoly positions. "Hacker" news.

More reasons to break up Big Tech from a government regulations perspective - The only democratic politician talking about it is Elizabeth Warren. But many are upending large incumbents without gov reg - Stripe ("Increase the GDP of the internet") and Square in payments/ecommerce space. Tesla taking on Big 4. I would like to see a real competitor for Google search. Perhaps Algolia? Their search is incredible on HN.

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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by ethbr0 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:54AM (#29474930)

It's a two-sided coin. It's not a very smart bet to say "I can out-compete a US$182.53 billion revenue company... by doing things that require massive amounts of capital."

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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't YouTube have a competitor? by jonas21 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:27PM (#29476269)

Are Stripe, Square, and Tesla not big tech? They have market caps of $95B, $88B, and $1.05T, respectively. And is YouTube not upending the incumbents (TV and traditional media) in the same way that they are?

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