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0 pointssmnrchrds4y ago0 comments

At their scale, nothing is cheap. Some things are cheaper than others, but even the cheapest option must be costing a fortune each month.

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ChrisArchitect4y ago

Right, it's the scale and seemingly limitless ceiling.... seems crazy. Obviously there's a lot of low res tiny images on there etc but there's also not -- and for years and years?

mcny4y ago

I remember back around 2009(?) ish I had a chance to talk to some folks at Justin.tv (now twitch) and they said one ad on the stream every few hours more than covers all the costs. What changed?

I guess the videos are much more high resolution now than the webcam size 320x240 videos back then but has cost gone up that much?

icelancer4y ago

Ads are worth a magnitude less today than they were in 2009.

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oceanplexian4y ago

I think a lot of tech companies meet the fate where they get diminishing returns on growth and have to keep hiring and spending a lot of cash to chase smaller and smaller gains. Bandwidth is expensive but having thousands of highly compensated employees is also very expensive, probably more so.

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