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It gets harder to measure, but on the argument of scalability, that varies dramatically. If I wrote an app that was as popular as GMail, it's very possibly muc
by bmelton 11y ago
It gets harder to measure, but on the argument of scalability, that varies dramatically.
If I wrote an app that was as popular as GMail, it's very possibly much more impactful than a $100M worth of advertisements.
- monocasa 11y agoCan you point to an app that swung an election more than $100M worth of advertisements? Like, I know this is hacker news, home of "there's no limit to what you can achieve with hard work and VC money!", but if we're being honest with ourselves could even a single unicorn class app company swing a presidential election if it put it's mind to it?
- bmelton 11y agoYes. https://www.ngpvan.com/ https://www.ngpvan.com/ I've worked on similar. An app that helps organize volunteers, sort and categorize mailing list responses, build street-maps for volunteers to walk to get the most value out of their canvasing time is worth FAR more than even a really good TV ad.
- SilasX 11y agoNader Trader, almost. It nearly swung the election to Gore in 2000 by giving him votes in swing states. (And some would claim he should have been counted as the winner because of Florida.)