In some ways it feels like exactly what you'd do if you wanted to tank your product over the coming years. I look back at the last 20 years or so, and what I see over and over is that one player in a space gets huge, keeps adding features, loses sight of what makes them a good market fit, and then 10 small upstarts swoop in to bring back the opinionated or simple view again. One or two win, and then eventually they repeat the same mistake.

I'm not trying to buy a labyrinth.

the company I work for is literally pushing one new feature behind another, the whole product is a mess now thanks to it, all of the features just get developed, hyped by marketing team, and then abandoned and we work on new ones... the features we developed 2 years ago untouched are beaten by competition, nobody cares, cause only thing we care about is user acquisition...

and of course we have no long term plans and vision, cause we just jump on hype waves and if something is marketable we need to develop it ASAP without really thinking it through to get as much new users as possible...

I hate it here, the only reason why I haven't quit yet is I'm scared of finding a new job given the current state of job market.

Reddit used to be a place you posted links.

Then images.

Then videos.

Now there is games in it.

And you can follow users instead of communities now.

And instagram has videos.

And pinterest has videos.

And imgur has videos.

And youtube has games.

And tiktok has longer videos.

And twitter also added images, videos, and then longer posts.

And tumblr has added videos, then communities that you can follow instead of users.

It feels like if a social media survives long enough it just turns into facebook.