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This. Business is business. It's not the Dev Relations team that decides if an app on the platform is competitive. Just because they told him to it was 'cool' doesn't mean the execs think it's too competitive...

Moral: Make sure you're talking to the right people.

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Um, yeah pretty sure I was talking to the right people. Marc Andreessen is on my board.

You wrote this post 40+ days after the meeting took place. That imply your timing is chosen for reasons you didn't disclose in the blog post. Hence you try to manipulate public while pursuing hidden agenda.

-> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325762

Yea? So what? You just happen to post it right after your post about creating an open feed platform -- right as the PR momentum behind it started dying.

Don't feed the trolls. Ryan is trolling here.

What does that have to do with anything? In your letter to Mark you said, "I had been reassured by Facebook dev-relations employees" -- as an ex-Facebook Dev Relations employee I can assure you that you were not talking to the right people.

I don't think that's the moral at all. The moral is that when you build on someone else's platform, they may decide to extinguish you at any moment.

That doesn't mean never build on someone else's platform, it just means to be aware of the risk and include it in your planning.