Should You Ever Build an App on Someone Else’s Platform?

After years helping other companies turn their ideas into award-winning digital products, it was time to create our own. We’d planned to launch a lean, MVP version of the product in a month, which turned into two. Tasks that we thought should have taken a few hours routinely ended up taking a few days. Learning how to work with the Slack API was like learning a new programming language – which is always easier said than done. The host platform could end your business whenever it chooses, either by taking away your access or copying your product.