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Do you know how many 2 week portfolio projects for bootcamp grads are literally "Clone AirBnB"? Because you can casually browse through AppAcademy's alumni pro

• seattle_spring 8y ago
  And 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 ago
    Nobody 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.