The Guardian web site has/used to have a warning displayed for articles of a certain age. This would apply here.
The article is from 2015. Close to irrelevant, alas.
The article is from 2015. Close to irrelevant, alas.
The hard part is making this a successful business. Because the minute you try and monetise it with advertising you will quickly find out that building a competitive ad platform is where the real challenge is.
No, you can't.
If it really is trivial today, it was in 2015: cloud providers already existed, smartphones already existed, programming tools were already more than mature, anybody could run a few instances of ejabberd and build an app to talk to them.
WhatsApp image upload used a simple PHP page...
It wasn't exactly rocket science, it was simply very well executed.
Doing a crappy chat app, yes sure that's easy. But one that works as reliably, with the general performance of whatsapp ? Even with today's tech, that's super hard.
People were always fascinated by Erlang (or rather the underlying BEAM) but it never really broke into the mainstream, probably because it is so different.
so things become irrelevant after 7 years now?
will this comment be irrelevant in 7 years?