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by flexie 3216 days ago
These are tools used by thousands of devs, but not hundreds of millions of users.
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jldugger 3216 days ago
Hundreds of millions of users is a very high hurdle. I'm struggling to think of _any_ product used by hundreds of millions of people launched in the past five years. Care to jog my memory?
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sharth 3214 days ago
Telegram and Snapchat are probably the most reasonable companies.
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jldugger 3214 days ago
Snapchat founded 2011, same time frame as Google+. Which is on the wikipedia list of 100M+ user communities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_communities_wi...), but its hard saying how that google+ number was arrived at.
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digitalzombie 3216 days ago
But the dev use those tools to make tools for users.

The users are using it indirectly.

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