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Comment by insalada | Hacker News Reader

Here's me, wandering around the internet for multiple decades now. Tuning into Slashdot for maybe 10 years, HN for about 5 years, I'm tuned into pretty much all of the new school recent developments and current events, across a wide range of technologies, and I've never heard of this particular company, neither heard nor used of any of its products, nor heard mention of any of them, until right now, today, and it's the most valuable startup ever, worth 75B for no reason, with a website that does nothing.

Okay, Bloomberg. Thanks for cluing me in. Maybe you could have dropped this news on me when it was worth a billion. Or maybe when even one of its products gained a bit of inertia? No? Not really? Okay. No problem.

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Sorry to sound harsh. Maybe it's time to burst out of the English/US bubble and look at what's happening around other parts of the world.

Come to think of it, maybe I should start a blog focused on covering tech in China.

Edit: To give some context, out of 10 videos that I see on facebook, about 3 of them are "directly taken" from douyin. You can spot them because they have the watermark in Chinese. Granted my social circle is more "Chinese", but lots of content are not Chinese specific, like cats or random funny videos.

I haven't run in to a blog like this, sounds like a good idea! I'd follow it :)

It's up! With first post on WeChat's subscription account:

https://paraditedc.com/

Very cool, I've added it to my "daily" bookmarks. I'll share it around :)

Abacus launched easier this year, to fill some of that gap:

https://www.abacusnews.com

Though they're still more long-form editorial than "here's what happened this week."

I'd love to read a blog on tech in China or other places!

Spent a hour or so, the first post is up:

https://paraditedc.com/

I would read that blog. Provided that I get notified of it's existence somehow.

Here it is! With first post on WeChat's subscription account:

https://paraditedc.com/

bookmarked

I only know of the company because of PaymoneyWubby, a popular YouTuber who made videos about their Musical.ly/TikTok app that sparked bad press against them and Bytedance tried to censor: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3bpqsa7dM

Their businesses have been regularly reported upon in the English media. Try searching "toutiao" or "douyin".

this whole fame+valuation approach serves the purposes of .. who ? other posts mention the shallow (and worse) nature of this kind of adspace.. long toiling projects starve while this is the monetary king-of-the-hill ? ugly

It's China, so not surprising you haven't heard of it.

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