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But it doesn't really matter does it? It's a social application, not a banking system. If your garbage gets users it's not garbage.
by ng12 10y ago
But it doesn't really matter does it? It's a social application, not a banking system. If your garbage gets users it's not garbage.
- pcwalton 10y agoIf a company gets users but fails to retain them, causing the product to fail and the investors to lose their funds, then it certainly isn't a success.
- ng12 10y agoSure, but it's a calculated risk -- maybe they decided that growth features were more important than uptime or data integrity. That still doesn't mean the app is garbage.
- TacticalTable 10y agoYikyak didn't fail because of garbage code, it failed because of absolutely stupid decisions of direction. Adding usernames absolutely killed the app
- s73ver 10y agoNo, that just means it's popular garbage.
- ng12 10y agoAnd that's infinitely better than scalable, well-designed garbage nobody uses.