[satvikpendem]

How many times are we going to hear the same old story warning of platform risk? It happened with Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Stripe, and so many others. If you want to control your company, don't build off someone else's infrastructure, make your own, even if it's harder to do so.

[monsieurbanana]

This reads like a success story, I'm not sure your advice hits the target.

[satvikpendem]

How does it read like a success story? The bottom half of the article is all about how Shopify pulled the rug out from under them by giving them 3 days to tell their users about "breaking ToS", locking them out of their app, and ultimately seizing their account.

[monsieurbanana]

The 600k monthly recurrent revenue makes it look like a very successful story

Launching a product in a walled garden, getting around 10 million recurrent revenue with a small team and almost no other fees, then stopping after a few years looks to me like a dream come true. Almost better than not having the pull rugged. Once you have that much money it's time and a stress-free life that I would seek.

The article reads a bit weird to me because there's a lot of complaining about Shopify including in the title, yet they also mention that they knew this would be the outcome from the beginning.