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Is there a different product that can not be cloned? Meta produced threads in what, a month? How long would it take your start up to get the users they did by turning it on?

The point being, a FAANG can start from zero and beat you to 1 MM users even if they only noticed your product idea once you launched.

I would love for that not to be the case, but we see it everywhere. At least for things that are competitive to them.

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> Meta produced threads in what, a month?

It took meta 6 months from starting to work on it to making their public release

They are still missing features like a web version so they have been working at for 8 months now and still not "finished"

Meta I've worked at and there's no large company that will finish work faster but they will finish it multiple times.

Isn't threads already dead and gone?

I’m not sure it matters much. The point is that they identified a potential area for a competitor to grow in social media and just utterly crushed the space. And now that it turns out maybe there isn’t much of a market it doesn’t even really matter to them, they can easily absorb that loss and move on.

did they crush it though?

no

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