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> Google and Facebook have tenthousands of developers. And not just any devs, some of the best in the industry. Google and Facebook have tons of userdata for training ML models.

and many of them are bent towards developing internal garbage, or services that you just don't need if you're not hoping to create huge monoliths. or, as others have pointed out, making the same service over and over.

> How do you compete with that?

having different goals reduces the extent to which you're competing, and different goals leads to different (possibly easier to satisfy) constraints.