Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by cozos 1300 days ago
How was Disney able to build a streaming app as good as Netflix, which is supposed to be filled with extremely well paid and presumably, extremely qualified people? I had a friend interview with Disney+ recently and the salary wasn't that good.
3 comments
tim-- 1300 days ago
It involves the Major League Baseball! Disney+ was created with the technology that was used to stream MLB games.

Disney acquired 75% of BAMTech Media for $2 billion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Streaming

link
HDThoreaun 1300 days ago
I think HBO has shown us that you don't need a streaming app as good as netflix, people just need to be able to watch your content. If you have the content people will pay to stream it.
link
kranke155 1300 days ago
The quality of the streaming app just has to pass a relatively low bar. It just needs to work tbh. The content is king.

It could be they just hired extremely competent people to build it, outsourced?

link