<story><title>Always Own Your Platform</title><url>http://alwaysownyourplatform.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwdv</author><text>No point in owning your own platform unless you are in the business of building and running a platform.&lt;p&gt;The real advice is to always be ready to abandon your platform at any moment and move on to a new one should its policies no longer be in your favor. Always be preparing for this scenario. What’s your contingency plan?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coding123</author><text>Why give the platform all that seo. In the long past era we used to have a bunch of random webshops. Now sellers can barely survive unless they are on Etsy eBay or Amazon. We gave them all that free SEO and now we are wishing we didn&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>
<story><title>Always Own Your Platform</title><url>http://alwaysownyourplatform.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>xwdv</author><text>No point in owning your own platform unless you are in the business of building and running a platform.&lt;p&gt;The real advice is to always be ready to abandon your platform at any moment and move on to a new one should its policies no longer be in your favor. Always be preparing for this scenario. What’s your contingency plan?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimktrains2</author><text>&amp;gt; The real advice is to always be ready to abandon your platform at any moment and move on to a new one should its policies no longer be in your favor. Always be preparing for this scenario.&lt;p&gt;Especially if you&amp;#x27;ve built a business around a SaaS this is fairly impossible&amp;#x2F;difficult to do unless you don&amp;#x27;t embrace the features that set the SaaS apart, in which case, why bother with the SaaS at all.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always an advocate for in-house control of any system that can&amp;#x27;t be abandoned in a week.</text></comment>