Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of other services?

Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by x-separator on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @03:13PM (#7593739)

Youtube was originally a Myspace widget.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by aesopwolf on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @03:17PM (#7593758)

Really? Do you have a source?

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Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by mailarchis on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @04:18PM (#7594023)

Search for jawed karims talk at CMU I guess. One of the key reasons of YouTube fast growth was the HTML snippet that you could embed in you MySpace page.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by anthony_franco on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @05:46PM (#7594517)

I remember MySpace ended up blocking YouTube from their site. And YouTube, a small startup at the time, turned to their users to plead to MySpace to activate them again. A few weeks later, they were back in business. But it's interesting to know how close YouTube was to hitting the deadpool.

Edit: Dug up an older article about it: http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/22/myspace-users-angry-ove...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some successful startups built on top of... by pydanny on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @03:35PM (#7593842)

Never heard this before. Got a source?

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