[loeg]

> Anyone with money and a modicum of technical expertise can make a messaging platform. The hard part is monetization.

Facebook has clearly cracked the monetization problem.

[discordance]

Whatsapp’s opex was $13.5m with a revenue of $15.9m before they were acquired. [0]

0: https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/28/whatsapp-revenue/

[sudosysgen]

Yes, in a way that cause this quagmire.

Anyways, the post I replied to was talking about the machinery, not the monetization.