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  • Money. Lots and lots of it.

    Hosting video on a significant scale is very expensive. Stupendously expensive.

    Convincing people to join is also going to cost a lot of money. Consumers are on YT because creators are there, and they are already used to the platform. Creators are there because the consumers are there. And there is a robust infrastructure to make a living from content creation.

    Financing is especially difficult for such a project, because companies are willing to pay way more for targeted ads. For which you need some data about your users. The more data you collect, the better the and targeting can be, the more companies are willing to pay.
    Assuming there are enough users for companies to pay for advertising at all.
















  • Very often they do. Many of these internal applications are from mainframe computer times when interacting with applications exclusively via the keyboard shortcuts was the norm. In most companies, they never dared to remove those because the Power Users are used to them for decades.

    Problem is, few people are trained directly by those power users so they never learn those efficient shortcuts. And they are never well documented.