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There are lots of startups that I considered dumb. A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. But here we are. In trying to start my
by yardie 10y ago
There are lots of startups that I considered dumb. A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. But here we are.
In trying to start my own business I'm still learning to get over my own self doubt.
- rev_bird 10y ago> A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. It made a lot more sense when we used SMS to tweet.
- yardie 10y agoIt made sense at the time, and most people probably weren't around when you could tweet by SMS, but almost 10 years later we're still working with this imposed limit. And doing it well.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> A messaging service that only allows 140characters sounds ridiculous. But here we are. A world in which such a service is a billion-dolar business is a world which's aggregate business method is to throw random shit at the wall and see what sticks. In other words, success in startups is a lottery. I hope I cheered you up. :).
- mikestew 10y agoThere are lots of startups that I considered dumb And in the vast majority of cases you were right. A parallel comment pointed out that it's a lottery. I don't even think that's true, as with the lottery I know exactly what the odds are. Odds on some random startup "...only for dogs, on the Internet"? Fuck if I know.