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What fascinates me with this story is how low tech everything was. A simple landing page, email list/newsletter, and "value" in the form of travel deals. Anyone
by Huhty 9y ago
What fascinates me with this story is how low tech everything was. A simple landing page, email list/newsletter, and "value" in the form of travel deals. Anyone can do it, and the barrier of entry is minimal.
- taphangum 9y agoTech provides leverage horizontally, not vertically. As programmers, we often fool ourselves into believing the opposite.
- tomerbd 9y agowhat do you mean i don't understand the horizontal / vertial
- DontGiveTwoFlux 9y agoVertical - the actual thing that provides customer value. Horizontal - scaling up your application to lots of customers. Scaling software is easy, there's no factory to buy more equipment for. Creating business value is much harder.