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How do you handle the existential threat of relying on one product of one company (in this case Google search indexing)? Do you just hope for the best? Do you set limits on how much you will invest in your tool? Do you do some kind of fancy-pants risk analysis?


it's a good question. In my case, I have 20+ products. So if one product dies due to google cutting their apis, I will be fine. But if this was my only product, I'd be stressed tbh. I remember what happened to founders building on top of twitter api when twitter cut the apis and made it super expensive. Lot's of founders still didn't recover from that




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