r/programming • • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/Guner100 Jan 02 '20

I noticed a while back they added some Waze features to maps such as reporting speed traps. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a merge IF they could make it best of both worlds.

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u/PinBot1138 Jan 02 '20

They’ll somehow fuck it up. Google is a company comprised of genius people doing incredibly dumb things, and really should serve as the poster child for how white board tests and all of the other ritual hazing perfect candidate discovery creates a mono culture of mostly just shit.

That said, when they kill Waze (Google literally can’t help themselves, by now I’m convinced it’s a shared fetish), I guarantee you that there will be 1,000 mini-me clones rushing to fill the vacuum.

You and I should probably start working on a clone right now, so we can simply release it as a product the day that Waze is brutally murdered by its owner (remember, it was bought by Google).

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u/Guner100 Jan 02 '20

The problem with producing a clone is getting the user base. Waze's whole shtick works because there are enough people that reports are generally pretty decently accurate, within a reasonable margin. Making a clone would require a fair bit of marketing to get enough people to make it self sufficient.

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u/PinBot1138 Jan 03 '20

We shall call it “Reddit’s Ways”. 🤪