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Is it really luck if he's done it twice?

• simonh 7y ago
  Quite, you don't build a productive team and high quality app with compelling features by accident. It might be an accident that this is the part of the system that succeeds, or an accident that it happens to hit the market at the right time, but being capable of seizing the opportunity and executing on it well are both also required and are never an accident.
• H8crilA 7y ago
  If I read the article correctly the first idea was some game, and as probably >95% of indie games it failed. Then a successful chat app (Slack). Who has done what twice?
  • 1986 7y ago
    As noted in other comments, Butterfield had a similar failed-game-pivot that turned into Flickr
  • pwinnski 7y ago
    He has tried twice to create GNE: Game Never-Ending. The first time he gave up, he turned the image-sharing part of the game into Flickr. The second time he gave up, he turned the chat part of the game into Slack. Maybe he should try making GNE again.
    • DonHopkins 7y ago
      Glitch was his attempt at making GNE again. Game Neverending is to Flickr as Glitch is to Slack.