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Where's the "a high schooler with one week of JS experience could code Airbnb in a weekend" guy when you need him?
by seattle_spring 8y ago
Where's the "a high schooler with one week of JS experience could code Airbnb in a weekend" guy when you need him?
- usaphp 8y agoWhat’s the reference? I would love to read that.
- bitexploder 8y agoThere is a famous post about Dropbox on here that basically says that when Dropbox was announced.
- Stratoscope 8y agoFor a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- bitexploder 8y agoYes, thanks :)
- rglover 8y agoUnemployed. Rimshot
- busterarm 8y agoDo you know how many 2 week portfolio projects for bootcamp grads are literally "Clone AirBnB"? Because you can casually browse through AppAcademy's alumni projects and find loads of them.
- seattle_spring 8y agoAnd the fact that people think those projects are equivalent in complexity to a site like Airbnb speaks to their elementary understanding of software systems.
- busterarm 8y agoNobody actually thinks that. Building a website is different than having a real functioning business with paying customers. The heavily down-voted OP was merely stating an opinion that the "building" part of this is easy and that this kind of tool _shouldn't need_ some kind of large enterprise around it. But just as much as people think building stuff is easy, engineers often have the inverse logical fallacy that the entire business stems from them and that things like sales, support, legal and HR are irrelevant.