[holler]

You're missing the _hard work_ part. Sure there's always an element of "luck" in any story of success, but that mostly has to do with timing, and is much less weighted than the perseverance and hard work of the people building it.

Twitch is a full-featured, very mature application with many moving parts outside of just the video streaming, and building all those parts took an incredible amount of time and effort.

[runawaybottle]

It’s just luck. I mean, if I was a storyteller, what story would I have to tell if there was no story.

They hit.

It’s sort of like we all hold Golden dice, so we marveled, by our own eyes, at the gold.

Dealer: You rolling those?

Us: no, it’s gold.

They fucking risked it. It’s not a engineering feat, we’re all a bunch of pussies.

Twitch is easiest site to build, you might as well show me a todo app (which will be sieged and dismantled), scale is solved, we will eat your applications, the barbarians.

Rome falls.

[lm28469]

You'll be rolling dices for a long time of that's all you need to build a twitch clone ;)