[nowherebeen]

> Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor.

Just cause its easily duplicated doesn't mean others can compete. You can easily duplicate Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. But unless you are as big as Facebook, you will not be about to compete. Its called network effect.

[fomine3]

But it's just gifs. Not social network like other examples.

[nowherebeen]

> But it's just gifs. Not social network like other examples.

When you send gifs to someone, that gif can be tracked. Which means, it can be monetized like other social networks. In fact, their business model is exactly like other social networks.

[ComodoHacker]

If Telegram shows anything, you can.

[oblio]

Telegram was launched 8 years ago. By a Russian billionaire.

Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram have ~3 billion users and Telegram only has 500 million, after FB has been under constant attack for about 3 years and Telegram has received a ton of free advertising as a result.

If you call that easy (after all, that what the comment you were replying to was asking), then everything in this life is easy. Heck, getting resurrected is probably "easy".

[ComodoHacker]

I don't call it easy, I call it possible.

[hansel_der]

hehe, yea!

tg value proposition is based around a superior user experience, that's what competition is all about.