{"id":22648,"date":"2018-09-05T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22648"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:05:18","slug":"a-farewell-to-streamtome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/a-farewell-to-streamtome\/","title":{"rendered":"A Farewell to StreamToMe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cocoawithlove.com\/blog\/a-farewell-to-streamtome.html\">Matt Gallagher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.cocoawithlove.com\/blog\/a-farewell-to-streamtome.html\">\n<p>I fixed the bugs but now I had a different problem: customers, lots of them, all wanting features. If they all wanted the <em>same<\/em> features, there might not be a problem but I quickly learned that media is a deeply personal experience and everyone wants to experience it a different way.<\/p>\n<p>Ever wondered why all the major media player are a weird kitchen-sink of features bolted onto each other? Media players are a product-space where everyone uses a tiny slice of the features but no two users use the same slice of features and the entire space is really, really broad.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Like an idiot, I scrambled to add as many features as I could. Unfortunately, I ended up with a huge swath of features that I didn&rsquo;t really use and the app stopped starting to feel like it properly catered to me. For something that started as a personal passion project, I was starting to feel like an dispassionate observer, rather than a passionate participant.<\/p>\n<p>And as the feature set grew, so did a different class of maintenance problems and these were not simple bugs that could be fixed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Gallagher: I fixed the bugs but now I had a different problem: customers, lots of them, all wanting features. If they all wanted the same features, there might not be a problem but I quickly learned that media is a deeply personal experience and everyone wants to experience it a different way. Ever wondered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-05T19:05:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"fc90a1a4-db8d-473c-95d7-84715180ec71","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-09-05T19:05:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_JChpNuNRzyV14RxUYDscQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101,31,1472,26,1727,1451,97],"class_list":["post-22648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-iosapp","tag-streamtome","tag-sunset","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22649,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22648\/revisions\/22649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}