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Implementing your own email/file sync/identity server sounds like great advice for any startup to get going. In your in-house programming language, of course.

• teddyh 7y ago
  I believe you are being insincere and/or sarcastic. This does not help, and it would have been more useful to make actual arguments.
  • diminoten 7y ago
    It is an actual argument, he's saying that your application of this phrase makes no sense here. Are you suggesting startups write their own email server?!?!
    • teddyh 7y ago
      If they’re offering e-mail as a service to customers, and trying to differentiate by the features of that service, then probably yes. Otherwise, probably not. Read the linked post to get a more nuanced view of what Joel considers being a “core business function”.
      • diminoten 7y ago
        They're not, no one is talking about that except you. You're completely off topic. This is about startups hosting their own internal IT infrastructure.
        • teddyh 7y ago
          It’s an analogy.
          • diminoten 7y ago
            It literally isn't, as you've presented it.